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NT Services monitoring with VB

I would like to use a VB app that monitors particular services in windows NT 4.0. If the service dies, then I would like to be able to automatically restart it. Is this possible?

ndb

Let me know if someone answered. I asked almost the same question.

GeekMan

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If I cannot do that, I would at least like to be able to detect the service's status (started or stopped).

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Torus

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GeekMan

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Wow...This is great. Thank you very much..

GeekMan

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One question, don't I have to declare "STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED" as a constant? What should it's Hex value be, or does it matter??

Torus

Sorry, missing. Here you are!

Public Const STANDARD_RIGHTS_REQUIRED = &HF0000

GeekMan

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I've got it working..I've noticed something interesting points in doing so. Unless I'm doing something wrong, the service names must not have any blanks in them when passed to the OpenService function(ie. a Service that displays as "Directory Replicator" must be passed to the function as: "DirectoryReplicator") I also found that not all Services are created equal. Some are displayed differently(particularly 3rd party services) than how they are recognized internally.
In one particular case I had a Service displayed as: "DmNet Listener Server" what worked internally was: "DmNetListenerService"...a little strange I thought..

Torus

oh! Thank you for telling your experience here. Actually, I don't know the service name passed to the function should not have space.