Troubleshooting Windows XP services
Windows XP has proved itself to be an astonishingly popular operating system in a relatively short period of time. Despite many users being put-off by it's original appearance, it has quickly established itself as the de-facto operating system for businesses for one main reason. Reliability.
Since earlier versions of Windows NT, Windows users have been able to run certain applications as Services, and third party applications such as FireDaemon allow the user to run almost any Win32 application as a Service. Although for administrative and performance issues, these are generally best left for critical applications.
The problem with Windows Services, especially Windows XP Services, is that like any application, they can sometimes fail. And even though the Windows XP Services console allows services to be set to recover automatically, the reality is that this often fails to work as intended.
Paessler's IPCheck Server Monitor is designed to detect network and website performance issues and failures early, and can also be used to ensure that Windows XP Services are running as they should be.
For example. A business may rely on certain mission-critical applications, such as Dantz's Retrospect service and SQL Server. If either of these services go down, data may be lost or inaccessible. The Windows Services console just isn't reliable enough. Effective troubleshooting of Windows XP Services involves not only checking (at regular intervals) that these services are running, but the ability to restart them as required, and perhaps even notify particular users of a network that this has taken place.
IPCheck Server Monitor makes troubleshooting Windows XP Services a breeze, and will make sure that all of your critical applications and services are running 24/7.