WindowsServicesMonitoring.Core

WindowsServicesMonitoring.Core provides the core logic for WindowsServicesMonitoring.X.

Contribution

Your contribution is always welcome! All your work should be done in thedev branch. Once you finish your work, please send us a pull request on dev for review. Make sure that all your changes MUST be covered with test codes; otherwise yours won't get accepted.

Configuration

In order to configure the WindowsServicesMonitoringService instance, either App.config or Web.config should be updated with the following settings.

<configSections>
    <section name="monitoringSettings" type="Aliencube.WindowsServicesMonitoring.Configurations.MonitoringSettingsSection, Aliencube.WindowsServicesMonitoring.Configurations" requirePermission="false" />
</configSections>

<monitoringSettings>
    <environments>
        <environment name="DEV">
            <servers>
                <server name="localhost">
                    <services>
                        <service name="W3SVC" expected="running" username="username" password="password" />
                    </services>
                </server>
            </servers>
        </environment>
    </environments>
</monitoringSettings>

• <environments>: Collection of the <environment> element.
• <environment>: This defines environment that contains collection of servers.
  • name: It is a unique name for each environment. This can be DEV, TEST, STAGING or PRODUCTION.
• <servers>: Collection of the <server> element.
• <server>: This defines the actual server that runs Windows Services.
  • name: Name of the server, that is identifiable within the network. Make sure that this is not a domain name or URL. Possible name can be APPSERVER01, WEBSERVER01 or SQLSERVER01.
• <services>: Collection of the <service> element.
• <service>: This defines the actual Windows Service to monitor.
  • name: Service Name of Windows Service, which is different from Display Name. For example, IIS has its display name of World Wide Web Publishing Service while its service name of W3SVC.
  • expected: Enum value of the service status. This value MUST be one of the following: Stopped, StartPending, StopPending, Running, ContinuePending, PausePending, Paused. Usually Stopped or Running can be enough.
  • username: Windows Account to execute the service.
  • password: Password of the Windows Account to execute the service.

License

WindowsServicesMonitoring.Core is released under MIT License.

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Copyright (c) 2014 aliencube.org

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