Unless you have the amazing ability to stay awake 24/7 and not ever blink, chances are you may have been unaware on occasion when a server has gone down. One software solution that might be of some help here would be Server Nanny. Simple, yet powerful. This program will keep you alert as to the ongoing condition of your Web servers.

Server Nanny monitors your important servers and network devices, notify you of problems, and even corrects problems so you don’t have to. Server Nanny runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003 and has over 25 different monitors including: ping, DNS, Windows service, disk space, process memory usage, server memory usge, HTTP, HTTPS, SQL, TCP port, custom script, custom executable, and more. The system notifies you immediately to problems via e-mail, net send, custom script, and custom executable. It can also perform actions such as restarting servers, starting/stopping/restarting services, custom script, and custom executable. Server Nanny keeps detailed monitor logs and can generate graphical reports from them. It also has a real time, graphical log viewer for current and historical monitor data. The monitoring engine runs as a service for maximum availability and minimum resource usage.