Hi,

I'm currently evaluating VisualCron with an eye to using it to manage all of our processes/services.

We currently have a bunch of services that we want to turn into processes and manage the running of them by 1 service ... pretty much exactly the piece of software you have written.

These services are critical services (which will become processes in the new system) and need to be monitored. If they go down they need to be restarted.

My question is what happens if the VisualCron service goes down? Does it take all the processes it started with it? If not when it recovers does it re-attach to all the processes that were under it's control?

These are very important issues to us, so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks
Rich Carless

If VisualCron dies it restarts itself. If any Execute processes are running when it dies they will continue running and VisualCron will lose the handle to them.

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Is there a way for VisualCron to persist the process id's and regain control of them once the service restarts?

Not currently. I understand your questions regarding this matter - at the same time, if VisualCron goes down - usually everything else goes down. We have no known unhandled exception that would cause this. We spend a lot of time handling different kinds of error instead of regaining control at startup. But this could be a Feature request.

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