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servicemon is a simple service checking application written in Python.

Once an hour it calls the init script of each service it is monitoring using the 'status' option to determine whether each service is running. It attemps to restart any that are not.

You'll need a Linux installation with Python installed and services which use full sysvinit scripts.

Either it would overcomplicate servicemon to add the feature, or the developer never thought of it. If you think there's something extra servicemon should do, send feedback!

The developer needed a client app that could run on Windows and Java is the only Windows-friendly language he knows!

It is potentially illegal to run a GPL-licensed Java binary with a non-GPL-licensed Java virtual machine. As the Java client app only works in Sun's java, this would naturally be a problem. Using the LGPL allows the application to be run legally in any virtual machine.

See these instructions.

David Johnson writes servicemon.

The author may write free software, but that doesn't mean he doesn't like money!

So ask it!

servicemon
simple service monitoring