Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC?

[John B.]

Reaching out to the forum braintrust here:

I have a remote commercial property with a couple of programs that need to be up and running on a PC there in order to pass access information between a tenant database and a gate entry system. One of the applications has an auto-update routine built in by the software developer that occasionally does not fully execute and the application will shut down.

Does anyone know of an application, service, etc that I can install on a single PC (Windows XP) that would send out an e-mail or text message if the application it is watching stops running? I'm looking for something a little more automated than my current option, which is LogMeIn to the PC to verify all apps are up and running.

Thanks in advance -

[decay]

does it run on a certain service port, like ftp?

[space-time]

how often does it happend? can you schedule the application or even the entire PC to reboot each morning at 3 AM for example?

[decay]

http://noodlemac.com/2011/10/how-to-moni...-your-mac/

Dejal's SIMON
http://www.dejal.com/simon/

[John B.]

Thanks for the point toward SIMON, I'll look into that this weekend.

As there are 3 applications running on this machine that all exchange data with each other and then pass the data to/from their home systems, I'd rather not script a daily reboot if I can find a simpler solution. We're generally talking less than once a month that this one application shuts down, and probably half of those times (once every two months) it's due to a pre-announced software update from the developer where I know I"m going to have to remote in the next morning to see if the update completed successfully.

[decay]

we monitor clients' backup servers running Crashplan.

when it goes down or up, we get an automated email like this:

Crashplan is back up at 11:13:18 on 2012-12-21. All is well.

Thank you for your attention.

This notification was sent automatically by the Dejal Simon site monitor app for Mac OS X: .