Some comments from Paul on the e-mail questions:

I haven't specifically provided a parameter setting for this, but you could do the following:

- Alter the 'set EmailServer=<mySMTPserverName> -u <myUserName> -pw <myPassword>'

The above would add the optional Blat '-u' (user) and '-pw' (password) parameters to the call of the Blat.exe e-mail utility. See 'Blat -h' for full details and usage.

Version 1.2 includes an E-mail specific log file that records the e-mail transfer attempts. The default filename for this is ServiceMonitor_Email_Log.txt. Check this file for any details.

The error from the web page is expected. When the ArcGIS Server Object Manager Service is shut down, it should in turn, kill all ArcGIS Server SOCs, rendering the WSDL end-points inaccessible.You should receive a "404 Not Found" error on the URL.

If you in fact received a 404 not found message, check the logs and configuration of the ServiceMonitor. Do you have a MaintWindows or MaintTimes setting affecting this?

Tim- The URL would be http://server01/arcgis/services/RealProperty/MapServer?wsdl

Entering this in a browser should normally return some XML showing what methods could be called on the map service. If you see that, you know that your service is running.

-Sterling

Tim, Unfortunately, not out of the box. The 'web get' utility used by this script must be provided with a user and password in order to respond to BASIC and DIGEST authentication challenges from HTTP sites (which are sent in clear text format). 'Web get' cannot directly respond to NTLM authentication requests, but if this is a requirement, consider using a NTLM Authentication Proxy to handle this for 'web get'. Ref: http://www.webhackingexposed.com/ntlm-aps.html.

If you want to simply hide the user and password from prying eyes, you could:

- Create a text password file in a secure location on your system that includes:
'user = <my user name>'
'password = <my user password>'

Note * make sure that the user launching the Windows Scheduled Task has access to this file as well.

- Include the following parameter in the ServiceMonitor service configuration file:
'set WGETRC= <path and name of password file>'

Note * you can use a different file for each URL if needed. Just add a 'set WGETRC...' entry with the appropriate file before the URL (or group of URLs) to be checked in the service configuration file.

This will cause 'web get' to read the configuration file and apply the user and password provided when an authentication challenge is presented.

Paul

Hi Andrew,

Looking closely at the issue you described, I see that retrieving a Map image from an ArcGIS Server MapService requires sending a Serialized object to the Service in order to provide the details required to generate the map. Currently, the ServiceMonitor is not capable of doing this without assistance from an external routine.

So, I recently released an update, ServiceMonitor v1.4, that allows for external User defined routines. If the external routine were to request a map and then receive an empty image, it could set the exit flag to reflect a value greater than zero. The ServiceMonitor can respond to this error exit and report the failure. Keep in mind that this external routine still needs to be created, but this should open the door for a detection method.

Along with this enhancement, the new ServiceMonitor supports nested If-Else-Endif conditions, parameter value stacks using PUSH and POP functions, a new User’s Guide build with MHTML, and many more features.

I hope this helps, Paul