Checking the fail status of windows service

[gottimukkala]

Hi How can we check the failure of windows service programatically. I have a windows service that elapses every 5 minutes and I need to check if the service is failed then restart it automatically in my code. I googled but I couldnt find the Failed Status for the windows service. Any ideas please!

[dan sh]

I take failure as your service breaks ie exception. Correct me if I am wrong. If this is the case, then you need to rethink. An application that breaks every 5 minutes is not desirable.

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[Jimmanuel]

The ServiceController[^] allows you to Start, Stop and check the running status of services.

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[dan sh]

But that will work only if the service does not "fails". Isn't it?

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[Jimmanuel]

That depends on what "fails" means. I took it to mean "crashes" in which case this will allow the OP to restart the service. If it means something else then no, this probably isn't very helpful. :)

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[dan sh]

I took it to mean "exception" and I guess "crashes" is referring to that only. That is why I asked, will this works even if the service encounters an exception(crash).

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