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Jaime
Jaime

Reputation: 605

Clarification on Windows Service Recovery Actions Settings

I am looking at the recovery actions settings and there are a couple of things that I need clarified.

If I have 0 days as my reset fail count after, and have the following as my actions:

  1. Restart the Service - on first failure
  2. Restart the Service - on second failure
  3. Reboot the Computer - on subsequent failures

Does the fail count get reset on a successful restart of the service?

Does the fail count get reset on the first failure? Hence never having a chance to perform the second or third actions?

On the third successive failure, the computer gets rebooted, the service get started and then fails again; would this reboot the computer again?

Thanks in advance!

Jaime

Upvotes: 21

Views: 27755

Answers (2)

MaXx
MaXx

Reputation: 81

I've tested that fail count on windows XPE. When the service run and I make it fail with "End Process" of the Windows task Manager. I have defined 3 recovery actions:

  1. restart service
  2. reboot
  3. run a program
  • On the first "end of process", the service is well restarted. OK.
  • On the second "end of process", the compuer is rebooted. OK.
  • After the reboot, if I end the process again, it is restarted and if I end it again, the computer is rebooted.

So it seems that this failure counter is reset after every reboot of the computer...

I precise that my fail count is configured to reset after 1 day.

Upvotes: 8

CoreTech
CoreTech

Reputation: 2433

Setting "Reset fail count after:" to 0 means "reset the fail count to 0 after each failure". This effectively disables both the "second failure" and "subsequent failure" actions and you will always get the "first failure" action.

Upvotes: 20

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