Monitor WHS Events and Auto Reboot Server
How would you like a piece of software that monitors your Application, System, Security and WHS event logs on Home Server, and then sends an alert to your email address or mobile device and then even has the ability to reboot Home Server if a critical system failure is detected.
Well we have info for you on a piece of software that does just that, and did I mention that it is even FREE!
PA Server Monitor Suite (Free Edition) monitors your Server Event Logs (Application, System, Security plus custom event logs) and sends alerts to your email or mobile device. The details are also written to the windows event log and as we have already said, if necessary it also has the ability to reboot Home Server if a critical system failure is detected.
PA Server Monitor Suite runs as a service and has many other useful features as well.
More details on the suite from here.
PA Server Monitor Free Download.
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You got to be joking! If you experience a critical system failure, such as a WHS hard drive failure, nobody is going to be able to reboot, period.
And if your only thinking a critical system failure isn’t hardware related, but is just the WHS software, who thinks all it takes is just a reboot to fix it?
You may as well just host a network client, meaning booting the hardware up on a remote network so Microsoft can insure additional service charges, while extending Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy measures.
Then every end user only needs to supply the hardware, using their biometrics to login with a two-factor authentication credit card! Now that’s what I would call a “WOW” experience…
Hi Eva Aziz,
I reviewed this product for those enthusiasts that want to monitor the event logs. The re-boot feature is an added feature to the software.
I happen to appreciate this one, I have a WHS that during heavy tcp traffic was simply dropping it’s network connection.
Forcing a reboot to get it going again.
This is a bit hard to do remotely unless you want to spend good money on a switch master or some other power managment hardware.
This app simply monitors connectivity to my router and should it fail restart my WHS.
Simple but effective, and saves me a drive or a very frustrating long wait to get to my files.