5.25 IASServiceDown

Use this Knowledge Script to monitor up and down status of the Internet Authentication Service (IAS). You can set this script to automatically attempt a service restart when it is not running. This script raises an event when auto-start fails, succeeds, or is disabled.

5.25.1 Resource Object

Internet Authentication Service object

5.25.2 Default Schedule

The default interval for this script is Every 5 minutes.

5.25.3 Setting Parameter Values

Set the following parameters as needed:

Parameter

How to Set It

Event?

Set to y to raise an event if auto-starts fails, succeeds, or is disabled. The default is y.

Collect data?

Set to y to collect data for charts and reports. If enabled, data collection returns:

  • 100 -- the Internet Authentication Service is up, or

  • 0 -- the service is down.

These values are used to report the percentage of time the service is up in any given period. The default is n.

Auto-start service?

Set to y to automatically restart IAS when it is down. The default is y.

Event severity when auto-start fails

Set the event severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which the service is down and AppManager cannot restart it. The default is 5 (red event indicator).

Event severity when auto-start succeeds

Set the event severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which the service was down and AppManager successfully restarted it. The default is 25 (blue event indicator).

Event severity when auto-start is set to n

Set the event severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which the service is down and the Auto-start service? parameter has been disabled. The default is 18 (yellow event indicator).

Severity for an unexpected KS error

Set the level between 1 and 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which the IASServiceDown job fails unexpectedly. The default is 35 (magenta event indicator).