RE: Server keepalive using HV or Comfort

["John McManus" <jpm.egroup1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From bitter experience... One of my disks failed last year (possibly
due to
excessive heat) and although it was replaced under warrenty, I lost some
photos (which were not backed up).

Decided to get a monitor utility that would check the SMART data for the
hard disks

http://www.panterasoft.com	HDD
Health

Tracks the hard disk temp etc & can notify you when outside a certain
level
(also shows you other info on max current consumed etc.).

May also give you some insight as to the time of day that the temperature
peaks etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 03 September 2004 10:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Server keepalive using HV or Comfort



There was a recent thread about monitoring a PC from HV or Comfort and
resetting the PC if it stopped responding. Unfortunately I don’t run the
software that was used in the answer so I thought I’d ask here if anyone
does something I can use.

I have a W2K SERVER running all my HA apps and home business apps as
follows:

Exchange Server 2003
DNS
DHCP
ACE (connected to HV Pro and Comfort)
ACE Text to Speech
HV Desktop connected to HV Pro
FTP Server
IIS
Telcanto music server
Wnamp
Etc…

Comfort and HV Pro are also connected directly

I’m aware that all my eggs are in the one basket but can’t spare the space
for yet another PC. The server is a dual processor machine and runs OK most
of the time although it has locked up a couple of times over the last year
(one being last night – probably because it got too hot – processors were
over 50deg).

So I was thinking of connecting the reset switch to either HV Pro or
Comfort
to reset it when it stops responding to something in Comfort or HV (using
the s/w I already have preferably). I want this solution to be pretty
reliable though as resetting an Exchange server when it doesn’t need
resetting is a very bad idea! I wouldn’t want the server to reboot just
because the PC software part of the monitoring solution has locked up but
nothing else.

So, any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul.