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This article explores how to restart any Windows service with an action profile as an alternative to creating a specific action profile for each Windows service.
Create a service monitor
Start by creating a Service Monitor as follows:
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To create a service monitor
- Select the Windows Service Check monitor.
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Note You must match the Service Name to the Windows Service Display Name. This name
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is leveraged later to select the Windows
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service to start. Note that Microsoft has both a Display Name and a Service Name. We want the Display Name
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, as shown in the following images.
- Complete the remainder of the Service Monitor window making sure that the Windows Service - Service Name is also the Display Name.
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- Make sure to select options that allow you to raise a Critical
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- alert when the
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- service status is Stopped.
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- Your
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- service monitor settings should look
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- the following example.
Create a recovery script
We are going to leverage a Recovery Script in an Action Profile to Start the Windows Service. This will be a very simple script. We are going to leverage two key components built into Uptime Infrastructure Monitor:
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