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Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC? - John B. - 01-12-2013 Reaching out to the forum braintrust here: I have a remote commercial property with a couple of programs that need to be up and running on a PC there in order to pass access information between a tenant database and a gate entry system. One of the applications has an auto-update routine built in by the software developer that occasionally does not fully execute and the application will shut down. Does anyone know of an application, service, etc that I can install on a single PC (Windows XP) that would send out an e-mail or text message if the application it is watching stops running? I'm looking for something a little more automated than my current option, which is LogMeIn to the PC to verify all apps are up and running. Thanks in advance - Re: Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC? - decay - 01-12-2013 does it run on a certain service port, like ftp? Re: Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC? - space-time - 01-12-2013 how often does it happend? can you schedule the application or even the entire PC to reboot each morning at 3 AM for example? Re: Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC? - decay - 01-12-2013 http://noodlemac.com/2011/10/how-to-monitor-a-gazillion-web-sites-from-your-mac/ Dejal's SIMON http://www.dejal.com/simon/ Re: Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC? - John B. - 01-12-2013 Thanks for the point toward SIMON, I'll look into that this weekend. As there are 3 applications running on this machine that all exchange data with each other and then pass the data to/from their home systems, I'd rather not script a daily reboot if I can find a simpler solution. We're generally talking less than once a month that this one application shuts down, and probably half of those times (once every two months) it's due to a pre-announced software update from the developer where I know I"m going to have to remote in the next morning to see if the update completed successfully. Re: Application to verify a program is running on a remote PC? - decay - 01-12-2013 we monitor clients' backup servers running Crashplan. when it goes down or up, we get an automated email like this: Crashplan is back up at 11:13:18 on 2012-12-21. All is well. Thank you for your attention. This notification was sent automatically by the Dejal Simon site monitor app for Mac OS X: .