Setting up an alert to monitor the Orchestrator Service

Question

How can I create a email alert to monitor the Orchestrator Service?

Answer 1

Hi,

Monitoring Orchestrator Service (Windows services) and receiving alerts when they go down is crucial for system administrators. I’ll provide you with approaches using PowerShell:

This approach involves creating a custom PowerShell script that sends email alerts whenever a crucial Windows service is not running.

Here’s how it works:

The script checks the status of services both locally and remotely.

It uses Get-Service to get the service status.

If the status changes, it sends an email alert.

The script keeps track of the last status polled using a text file.

If a service is not running and the text file is present, it sends an alert.

If a service is running and the text file is present, it deletes the text file and sends an alert.