Application as Service - Recovery tab

The Recovery tab contains the group of options that defines the system's behavior on service crashes or faults. Please, note that it is not available for Windows NT4 users.

Here you are able to manage the list of actions that could be taken to recover the service. By clicking corresponding buttons you may add new action, change actions order and delete action .

Computer's response in case of service failure

Option Purpose
Take no action
There will be no computer's response in case of service failure
Restart the service In case of service failure, your service will be automatically restarted
Restart computer In case of service failure, your computer will be restarted
Run a program In case of service failure, selected program will be launched
Reset failures counter after Here you are able to specify time (in hours) after which failures counter will be reset. Specify 0 to indicate that this value should never be reset.
Restart computer after Specify time (in minutes) after which computer will be restarted (note, that this option is not available unless you select "Restart computer" action)
Restart service after Specify time (in minutes) after which service will be restarted (note, that this option is not available unless you select "Restart the service" action)

Besides you can specify the broadcast message which will be sent to all logged users on server reboot. This option is not available unless you select "Restart computer" action.