Service Monitoring can notify you when services (and/or drivers) change status, are removed or added to the monitored computer. Service status information can also be logged to a database so that the service status can be queried through the web reports.
When monitoring services you basically have to decide whether you want to monitor all services with the option of excluding non-critical ones, or whether you want to monitor only selected, (e.g. mission-critical) services.
Default Configuration
The default configuration of EventSentry is configured to monitor all services with the exception of approximately 20 non-critical services which are excluded. These services (e.g. WinHttpAutoProxySvc) frequently change their status from stopped to running and vice versa, and being notified of these status changes is nothing but a nuisance. The advantage of this approach is that all other services are monitored, and you don't have worry about forgetting to monitor a service that was recently added to the system.
If you are getting notifications of a service that is non-critical then you can simply add it to the list of excluded services.
Monitoring only selected services
If you are only interested in monitoring particular services, then simply set the monitor type to "Only monitor services listed" and add the services you want to monitor. If you have a large amount of computers with different services you want to monitor, then we recommend that you create multiple packages, each listing a certain set of services. You can then assign these packages as needed to your servers or groups.
