NT Service Monitor

How to get here

• The NT Service Monitor checks the status of a service on a Windows machine and attempts a restart of the service (if the appropriate Administrator permissions exist).

  Note: A running Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service on the targeted machine is required for this NT Service Monitor to work properly. Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or higher, XP, and 2003 are installed with the WMI service. WMI is not installed with Windows NT, but can be downloaded from Microsoft and installed on Windows NT.

• Name. The name of the monitor as it appears in the Active Monitor Library.
• Description. The description of the monitor as it appears in the Active Monitor Library.
• Service name. Click the Browse button next to the Service Name text box to bring up the Browse for Service dialog which allows you to locate any server/workstation running the service.
• Restart on failure. Select this option to have the monitor attempt to restart the service when it enters a down state.
• Use in Rescan. Select this option to have the monitor appear in the Active Monitor list on the Device Properties dialog. WhatsUp Gold will add the monitor type to the device during a rescan, which is launched using the Rescan button on the Device Properties dialog, if the protocol or service is active on the device.

  Note: WhatsUp Gold uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to verify the status of the NT Service Active Monitors you have configured. WhatsUp Gold currently only supports monitoring on Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or higher, Windows XP Professional, and Windows 2003 or higher.