Sage service not restarting after a crash

[brewston]

Hi Guys

I occasionally get the Sage service crashing (Its a JRE exception error in swscale.dll) Seems to happen when browsing fanart in Phoenix, but not very often and doesn't seem to be related to particular jpeg

Whats most annoying is that the Sage service doesn't restart itself, i have to log on and start it. Auto recovery is checked in the sage service control applet and when I look at the service in Windows (I'm on Win7) its set to restart on fail

Any ideas how to get it to restart automatically ? or failing that some add on program which I can use to monitor it ?

Thanks

[nyplayer]

I have a script that I run on my server that will automatically restart stopped services as long as they are set to Automatic or Automatic Delay. I have it set to load at startup with a delay of 15 minutes.. after that it will check every 5 seconds. don't worry about resources etc... because 5 seconds on a PC is a long Interval.

I find it useful because it will restart any failed service that is set to Automatic startup. This has saved my butt many times.

One thing I have my server to autologon ... I am not sure if it works with the server at the logon screen.

startautoserviceloop.vbs

do
WScript.sleep 5000
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colListOfServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
 ("Select * from Win32_Service Where State = 'Stopped' and StartMode = " _
     & "'Auto'")
For Each objService in colListOfServices
    objService.StartService()
Next
loop

PS If you ever want to stop the SageService manually for maintenance etc.. you have to kill the script.... or else it will instantly restart it.

[brewston]

Thanks, I will give it a try. 5 second pause should be long enough to restart the miniclient on the extender anyway..

It shows up as wscript.exe in the process listing right ? (As opposed to the script name)

[nyplayer]

Correct wscript.

you can change the 5000 which is equivalent to 5 secs.

BTW make sure task scheduler is not set to end the task after running a certain amount of days. You want it to continue running.