asunel / wsw

Window service that sends SMTP Notification on failure of configured window services

WSW

Email

WSW currently supports sending mail notification through following accounts:

• GMAIL
• OUTLOOK

Update following attributes of email node in mail.config.xml

Attribute	Meaning
fromMailAddress	Mail sender address
fromDisplayName	Display name for sending email address
toMailAddress	Mail receiving comma-separated addresses
enableSsl	Enable SSL or not
timeoutInMilliseconds	Timeout for sending email

Password

In App.config. Replace YOUR_PASSWORD with plain password.

<!--<secure fromMailPassword="YOUR_PASSWORD"/>-->

After first run, WSW.exe.config will contain the encrypted secure section. No need for plain password after that.

Services

Service settings can be configured in serviceSettings.config.xml

serviceCategory: We can categories services using the category attribute.

services: Collection of service.

service: We can have multiple service elements in services collection.

Attribute	Meaning
name	Name of service
Source	Value of the Source column of a log entry in Event Viewer
logName	Value of the Log column of a log entry in Event Viewer
enableNotification	Enable/disable email notification for a service without restarting WSW.
enableStart	Enable/disable restart for a service without restarting WSW.
isMailSent	If unfortunately WSW crashes or someone stops it, then after it gets restarted it needs to know whether email notification for currently stopped configured services has already been sent before WSW failure or not. This attribute helps WSW in deciding that. DON’T CHANGE ITS VALUE MANUALLY. LET IT BE FALSE FOR THE FIRST TIME.
waitTimeoutForStartInSeconds	Timeout value for restarting a windows service
otherConfigs	Comma-separated relative paths of files/folders for other configuration files whose details needs to be part of the email notification