I regularly have the problem that after windows server updates the application server is automatically restarted and the ArcGIS Server 10.0 services are not restarted. I am not aware of this until my colleagues call to ask why the system isn“t showing Geodata. This then takes 30 minutes to stop the tomcat server, flush logs, restart AGS services and test that everything is running.
Is there a monitoring tool which would indicate or even send emails when the status of running services change?