Monitoring Windows Services

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BMC Performance Manager Express for SharePoint monitors Windows Services and triggers an alarm when a service is not running properly. The application monitors the following Windows services:

IISADMIN (IIS Admin Service)
SPAdmin (Windows SharePoint Services Administrator)
SPSearch (Windows SharePoint Service Search)
SPTimer (Windows SharePoint Service Timer)
SPTracer (Windows SharePoint Services Tracing)
W3SVC (World Wide Web Publishing)
SPWriter (Windows SharePoint Services VSS Writer)

Each service is represented by an instance of the SEN_WSS_SERVICES class with a single Status parameter (Start = Start; Stop/Stopped: !!; Pause, Paused, Resume pending = !).

To display the status of each of the above Windows service:

1.Expand the SharePoint Server and Element in the console
2.Click the Status parameter of the Windows service
3.Click the History icon in the right hand pane
4.An history of the service is displayed.

WindowsServiceStatus