Here is my wish ...

If our served file ever crashes, I (and Owner) are notified immediately. It could be emails to several addresses, phone call (smile), siren blaring over the whole city, carrier pigeon, I don't care.

I assume I can view FMS_EventLogs.fp7 or Server Admin. But the sooner I know, the sooner I can replace the file before Users try working in it! And some staff wouldn't tell me if it happened. And what if we lost electricity in the night? I have UPS but I think that's just good for 4 hours and then what? System loses power and trashes us? Even RAID would backup the trashed file. I wouldn't know because I'd be at home! I am now greatly paranoid about it.

What do others do to be sure they are alerted as soon as their server has a problem? There must be tricks out there! Ideas please?

LaRetta

No tricks. Just monitoring software. You can buy (or write) software that will monitor the event logs for you in real-time and send you an email or page you.

A google search will turn up a good bunch of software. If you don't like them I'd be happy to write a customized version....