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Creating a notification if SQLAgent service goes down or restarts.

  • September 6, 2005 at 1:03 pm

    #110276

    Hey all,

    I know creating an Alert for SQLAgent shutdown/restarts will not work. Besides using 3rd party monitoring tools is there anything in Windows in particular Windows 2003 Server that I can use to send me a notification/alert if SQLAgent service goes down or restarted. Perhaps its triggered if it sees a event log in the Event Viewer. How would you approach this?

    Thanks in advance.

  • September 7, 2005 at 7:33 am

    #588079

    You could write your own, but why are you not using the server vendor tools?

    for example, dell server , dell tools

    On a  compaq server, you can set up (I forget how) a process monitor on sqlagent.exe using the compaq agents.

    Unless you don't care about monitoring your servers.. or you are not using server hardware...

  • September 8, 2005 at 1:07 pm

    #588521

    If you have two SQL servers, you can set up a watchdog between them that will alert you if the other stops responding. It's worked well for me.

  • September 8, 2005 at 2:07 pm

    #588541

    Thanks guys for the reply.

    Looking into Adam's suggestion.

    Steve

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