What does HSSentry do?

[Mark S.]

I've searched the forum and help file, but I see no details on what HSSentry does - other than "If the server does not respond, the system is restarted".

What system is restarted? HS? the server? Nothing to configure? Does it actually work? Is it a long delay?

I have HSSentry checked on the Setup...General page, but nothing seems to happen when HS stops responding. I see Sentry running in task manager, but nada.

[rmasonjr]

It just monitors the HSConsole.exe app and restarts it if it dies. Try it out: kill HSConsole.exe from the task manager and you should see it come back in a few mins.

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[sparkman]

My understanding is that it monitors HS's web service and restarts HS if the web service becomes unresponsive. The help file states this:

Enables a small monitoring program the monitors the built in web server. If the server does not respond, the system is restarted.

Cheers
Al

[CinBRandon]

I'm not completely certain what it does... So, better to have it enabled? or not?

[sparkman]

It restarts HS if HS's web interface becomes non-responsive. I typically have it running, and only shut it down if I am doing maintenance on my HS server and have manually shut down HS.