NT Service Monitor

• The NT Service Monitor lets you check the status of a service on an 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 WhatsUp, 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 discovery. Select this option to have the monitor appear in the Active Monitors list during discovery. From there, you can select the monitor to have WhatsUp Gold discover that monitor type on your devices.

  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.

Troubleshooting

Having problems with your WMI monitor returning false negatives?