Setting Up Services Recovery Actions in Windows

About this task

Windows allows you to set up recovery actions to take place if a service fails. If you are running Historian Collectors on Windows, set recovery actions to restart the service for your individual collectors.

To set recovery actions for a specific service:

Procedure

  1. Open the Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Administrative Tools icon.
  3. Double-click the Services icon in the Administrative Tools window.
    The Services window appears.
  4. Right-select the Service you want to set recovery options for.
  5. Select Properties.
    The Service Properties window appears.
  6. Select Recovery.
  7. Select the recovery actions you want in the First attempt failure, Second attempt failure and Subsequent attempts failure fields.
    For more information on setting Services Recovery Actions, refer to the Microsoft Management Console online Help.