As A Service and Service - O - Matic Software for Windows

IsItUp Network Monitor
$19.95 - Taro Software Inc.

IsItUp Network Monitor is a server monitor, website monitor, port, and email system monitor. It continuously monitors multiple IP devices, websites, servers & alerts you via email or pager; graphs. Website content check; runs as a service; maintains performance statistics for each device it monitors - up time, maximum response time, minimum response time, standard deviation & error log. IsItUp tracks the last successful and last failed Traceroute.

Taro Software's IsItUp - When you need to know the status of your network. IsItUp continuously monitors multiple "pingable" devices using TCP/IP's Ping utility; it tests email servers by bouncing messages off auto-reply accounts and websites by using HTTP. Devices are monitored at specified intervals, notifying you, by email alert, pager alert, when they go down - or come back up.
Features:
- Monitor any number of devices, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Checks TCP/IP (ping) devices, websites, LAN servers, email servers, switches, routers, etc.
- Runs as a service
- Sophisticated website content tests
- Graphical interface is easy to customize and use
- Configuration "wizard" makes it easy to add devices and configure options
- Automatically watch any mail system by sending email messages and looking for returned messages
- System tests reports on uptime, average response time, and logs all data to a Microsoft Access database for you to work with on your own
- Notification by pager (modem), mail (MAPI or SMTP), or execute a batch job
- Multiple people can receive status notifications and each person has their own rules
- Rules allow you to specify how many times a query fails
- Notify on every "nth" failure
-Option to notify you when an item returns to operation (comes back up)

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PrimaSoft Encryption - Service Edition
$195 - PrimaSoft PC

Service Process: You can run scheduled auto-recurring encryption and decryption sessions as a service process.

Encryption Scheduler: PrimaSoft Encryption utility comes with flexible scheduler. You can schedule auto recurring encryption sessions for any future date and time.

Encryption algorithms: AES (US Advanced Encryption Standard) secret-key encryption algorithm known as Rijndael. Certified by National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST). AES is the new official US government standard for encryption of data. Twofish encryption algorithm, a runner-up candidate for AES. RSA encryption is a public-key encryption algorithm.

Encryption compression and decompression: You can use the most popular ZIP archive file format within the Strong File Encryption / Decryption utility. You can define automatic compression and decompression of the encrypted or decrypted files.

Encryption Log: Our software maintains a detailed Activity Log so you can easily find out which encryption sessions were successful, which failed and why. Our program can send email notification with information about successful or failed file encryptions and decryptions.

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Exe To Service
$39.95 - Everstrike Software

Exe To Service allows you to install any Windows executable, Visual Basic or Java script as a service. Windows services are background processes that do not interfere with the logged user's environment. Windows services are controlled by the Service Control Manager. You can start them on boot before the user logs on and control their execution remotely. Exe To Services also installs a simple service scheduler. Thus, you can also start services at a specified time.

You may want to install long-running mission-critical programs as services. By converting them to services, you receive full control over their execution, you do not allow a logged user to interact with these programs and you can run them in any security context regardless of the permissions granted to the currently logged user.

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AutoTask 2000 Task Scheduler
$59.95 - Cypress Technologies

AutoTask 2000 is a task scheduler designed specifically for Windows. It is an extremely versatile event scheduling software that can be ran as a service or as a desktop application in the background. It has very flexible scheduling and conditional triggers for running various task and has also the ability to run multiple commands per task, much like mini scripts or macros. The concept behind a task is quite simple. A set of actions performed to retrieve a certain result. You build a set of actions or commands that need to run sequentially to complete a task. Starting and stopping programs, sending keystrokes to a specific window, sending DDE commands are just a few of the available commands. Logic commands such as delay, wait for program to finish allow for greater control of your tasks. With AutoTask, you can define intervals such as every 5 minutes, every other day, every third working day, every second Tuesday of the month, twice a year etc. Along with the ability to define intervals, you can also set run times. AutoTask 2000 will allow you to launch a task based on certain conditions being true. Conditions such as whether or not a file exists, or whether not a specific program is running, or whether or not a specific window is visible are just a few of available triggers that you can define. This allows you to build logic into your tasks. Whether your needs are simple or complex AutoTask can handle them!

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FireDaemon Trinity
$69 - FireDaemon Technologies Limited

FireDaemon Trinity is an Enterprise Windows Service Management Platform. Trinity is comprised of three components: Enterprise Management Console, Web Server and Console Application. The Enterprise Management Console gives you control over services running on all machines on your network. It allows you to remotely manage machines via HTTPS and SOAP. The Web Server allows you to manage services via web browser or remotely via SOAP from the Enterprise Management Console plus also allows you to collect Windows Event Log and Windows service status via RSS. The Console Application allows you to run any application program executable as a Windows service. This is typically configured from the Enterprise Management Console but can be configured by creating XML files defining the service and installing via the command line. FireDaemon allows you to run any 32-bit or 64-bit application (EXE or DLL) or script (BAT CMD, .NET, Perl, Java, Python, TCL TK) as a 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista service. Trinity requires the Microsoft Windows .NET 2.0 framework (for Management Console and Web Server). Trinity services feature a low memory and CPU overhead, subprocess prioritization, support for custom environments, CPU binding, plus monitoring and logging to the event log and on-disk log files. Trinity provides maximum uptime for particular applications, securing them against accidental crashes or intentional shutdowns. A program, setup as a service, runs in the background all the time, regardless of who is or is not logged in. This can be useful for certain programs, such as network management or business productivity software, that should be running all the time. Services can be run as LocalSystem or as a specific local or domain users. Trinity also allows you to scheduled a service to run for specific periods of time during the day, week or month. This considerably simplifies systems administration and management.

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Handy Backup Pro
$57 - Novosoft Inc.

Handy Backup Pro is an easy-to-use yet powerful backup program designed for Windows 9x/NT/2000/Me/XP. It makes an automatic scheduled backup of your critical data virtually to any type of storage media: hard or network drive, CD-R/W, FTP or LAN. Strong file encryption and multichoice ZIP compression on the fly as well as many other useful features will protect your valuable data. The program can be run as a service under Windows NT/2000/XP.

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