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You could use a tool like <a href="http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/" rel="ugc">'servers alive' </a>which will mail you whatever service or application you are monitoring.<br />
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Else you could set up event forwarding in your server, specific errors will then be forwarded to any server/computer you specify which could (on his own) trigger an event.<br />
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How to configure event forwarding and collecting is described <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748890.aspx" rel="ugc">here</a>.
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theres no way to do this natively ? I prefer email alerts.
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What do you mean by &quot;natively&quot;?... because as you could see in my previous comment the &quot;<b>attach a task</b>&quot; to an event is very &quot;natively&quot; in Windows Server 2008 and this could be used directly without any other scripting if the service you want to monitor will record an event into the System or Application log... but this will mean that you will receive a message to inform you that event with that ID was recorded so that ID must be related to your service crush or stop.
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Hello,<br />
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we have a critical windows service that has been stopping randomly lately. I would like to windows send me an email when this service is stopped, can someone guide me to a step by step?
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Hello,

we have a critical windows service that has been stopping randomly lately. I would like to windows send me an email when this service is stopped, can someone guide me to a step by step?

Hi 

You could use a tool like &#39;servers alive&#39;  (http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/)which will mail you whatever service or application you are monitoring.

Else you could set up event forwarding in your server, specific errors will then be forwarded to any server/computer you specify which could (on his own) trigger an event.

How to configure event forwarding and collecting is described here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748890.aspx).

theres no way to do this natively ? I prefer email alerts.

What do you mean by &quot;natively&quot;?... because as you could see in my previous comment the &quot;attach a task&quot; to an event is very &quot;natively&quot; in Windows Server 2008 and this could be used directly without any other scripting if the service you want to monitor will record an event into the System or Application log... but this will mean that you will receive a message to inform you that event with that ID was recorded so that ID must be related to your service crush or stop.

Server 2008 Event Monitoring Email

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).