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Hi all! I have a question you might help me with. I have an email service which relies to IIS....Is there a way how I could be notified that the IIS Service was stopped? ie: if SERVERA runs IIS and stops, SERVERB or SERVERA itself notifies a client running XP? Any idea anyone?

thanks!

Hey Ramon,

My personal welcome to PCHF. Great question, and admittedly way out of my area of expertise. Let me flip this one to Mad Monkey, and see if he has a solution for you.

TTFN

LGW

Hey Ramon,

Yes you can do this in a script as long as your on a domain, and as long as the messenger service is running on the server.

From the IIS Server, open up notepad and start the script as follows:
@echo off
net send user/computer name "IIS Service is down"

You can also do a recovery at this point, and restart the IIS service by adding the following line to the script:
net start iisadmin

Save the document with the extention .bat for example, iismessage.bat somewhere you will remember on the server.

You can test the script by double clicking it.

Next, go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services and scroll down to the IIS Service. Right click on the service, and go to Properties, followed by the Recovery tab. Under "First failure", set the dropdown box to "Run a Program" and then select the script we just created. You can also set this for second and consecutive failures here too.

I created a batch file using NET SEND command to notify me whenever service stops...your advice was very helpful.

Query answered

Cheers

Thanks Ramon