I use NetWrix Service Monitor (NSM) to monitor and restart a single service on a VMWare server 2008 R2 64bit VM.
This is Axis Camera Station (ACS) which had been prone to "terminating unexpectedly" and not reliably restarting with the standard Windows recovery options.
I installed NSM on the same VM running the ACS service, and ticked the boxes etc to set it to:
Enable Services Monitor
Server Name: localhost
Monitor specified services: (Server Name: localhost Service Name: AXIS Camera Station)
Send an alert to: <my email address>
Start the service
SMTP settings - from address entered and function verified.
I then created the appropriate sceduled task and tested it.
Everything worked well for several weeks.
However, today the ACS service had failed again (in fact failed three times, triggering a server reboot.)
I checked NSM to see why it hadn't restarted it.
I found that the NSM settings has been drastically corrupted and the sceduled task was now set to "disabled."
For example the boxes ticked were entirely different, the SMTP server name had changed to just the domain. The recipient address had gone. It's very unlikely that anyone has made these changes manually.
I have restored the settings to the correct values, and re-enabled and started the scheduled task. It now seems to be working correctly again.
I discovered from the NSM.log that NSM stopped working on the same day that I updated the ACS server (from v3 to v5.) However, the service name "AXIS Camera Station" remains the same, and this was one thing that had been retained correctly in the NSM settings. When I corrected the other settings it all worked as before. Very odd.
Anyone seen anything like this before?
Tharg