Professional Software for Windows Services / 24×7 OperationQ&A: How do I Restart a Windows Service when an Event is Reported?We have a service that should restart whenever another service writes a particular event to the Event Viewer. How can I do that? — Russell Hi Russell. To create that workflow, you can introduce an “Event Trigger” with the Windows … Continue reading Posted in Windows Services Tagged event-viewer, q&a, service-pilot, task-scheduler, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: Why Doesn’t AlwaysUp Restart my Application?My company uses AlwaysUp to run 4 applications on our lab server. Every few weeks, one of the applications stops running and I have to log in and restart it. Why doesn’t AlwaysUp automatically restart it? Here is what I … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, q&a, service-protector, troubleshooter, windows-service-auditor, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: How do I tell that Dropbox is working as a Windows Service?We’re trialing AlwaysUp to run Dropbox as a Windows Service without anyone logged on. But when I use AlwaysUp, I cannot see the Dropbox tray icon. How do I know that it’s working? — Wendy Hi Wendy. Yes, verifying that … Continue reading Q&A: Why doesn’t Srvany Close my Application when I Stop the Service?We use Srvany to run our Java application as a service. It starts fine but when we stop the service our Java application does not close. We have to kill the java.exe process in Task Manager. That’s not supposed to … Continue reading Posted in Srvany Tagged alwaysup, java, q&a, service-wrapper, srvany, windows-services Leave a comment Q&A: Does AlwaysUp work in High Availability Failover Clusters?My team inherited a cluster of 4 Windows Server 2012 R2 machines running a legacy finance application. At a time only one instance of the application should be up and running as the active/primary instance. The application is cluster-unaware so … Continue reading Posted in AlwaysUp Tagged alwaysup, failover-cluster, failure-detection, failure-remediation, high-availability, q&a Leave a comment |
