knas Restarter Portable application was designed to be a small tool that automatically monitor and restarts crashed or hung programs and applications. It is a very useful tool for unstable computer environments and will keep alive clients such as IRC servers, FTP servers or mail servers.
It was originally developed to monitor and restart game servers, but it will do the job for any console or form based program or application.
Restarter will help you ensure that your critical programs are always up and running.
If your application crashes or if someone accidentially shuts it down, the Restarter will automatically restart the software with all the parameters that you have specified.
The Restarter also has the option to log and raise alarms on critical events.
Here are some key features of "knas Restarter Portable":
· Monitors a specified Process existence
· Restarts and/or logs when the process fails, crashes or is accidentally shut down
· Automatically kills the monitored process if it is unresponsive or hung
· Option to execute external scripts if the process fails. Sample scripts includes Send e-mail, Restart Computer
· Option to play a selectable sound when process fails.
· Option to restart the process window Maximized, Minimized or Normal
· Option to force focus on the restarted process window
· Option to start your application from a shortcut and automatically have it monitored with Restarter
· Portable application - No registry settings & all program files in one single directory, making it suitable to run directly from a memory stick
Requirements:
· Microsoft .NET framework Version 2.0 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed some WMI compability issues with Vista & Windows 7.
· Optimized code for better performance
· Redesign of the GUI to make it more intuitive/pedagogical
· Redone the 'start with parameters' code; Changed options for starting the application via shortcuts. The application now reads most of the startup options from the config file. (shortcuts from older versions of restarter are no longer compatible)
· Let the user chose location of where the shortcut should be saved
· Increased logging for traceability reasons + Included OS information in logfile when starting monitoring session.
· Color coded status messages for clarity.
· Option to chose the Window state (Normal/Minimized/Maximized) for the restarted process
· Option to force focus on the restarted application.
· Option to chose logfile + location of the logfile.
· Option to chose soundfile + location of soundfile.
· Option to clear/reset status.
· Added icon to each process in the list of available process to monitor.
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