Services start/stop automatically in azure

Question

Hi , Anyone please help me to know how to start a service if stopped in windows azure VM automatically without manual intervention

Answer 1

Hi @AzureisMyCareer-5423,

Open the Service management console on the server.

Start --> Run --> services.msc

Select the correct service and the Recovery tab.

Select First failure --> Restart the Service.

Answer 2

Much more bullet proof method is to script it something like this and run as a periodic scheduled task.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/f6449995-6fd3-4a37-8afd-bcc7f5388c6b

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Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows Server] Datacenter Management

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Answer 3

Hi,

Even i have not came across any solution so far to start services when they got stopped. One solution is to configure restart service on failure and i was thinking of building below solution.

1. Implement Change Tracking in Automation Account for your VM's which are reporting to workspace
2. Create a Log analytics alert to trigger the alert whenever any VM service goes down. Instead of triggering the email alert, trigger a runbook action.
3. Configure the runbook to utilize common schema alert and based on the values in the alert, runbook should invoke the "run command" on VM directly to start the service which is stopped. Or we can try to use custom script extension or desired state configuration based on our solution requirement.
4. If the runbook could not start the service then it should trigger the alert to IT Team to check and resolve the issue.

Below is the link with similar solution implemented by Github team :
https://github.com/azureautomation/runbooks/blob/master/Utility/ARM/Restart-ServiceFromAzureAlert.ps1