I have services running on many windows boxes. At times they either get stopped or are running but not responding. I want to build a script that will open a socket to each service and have that service respond to commands.

So each service will generally be running processes in a loop. At the same time it will need to respond to socket connections and respond accordingly(even if they are running a task). This is cutting edge for me as I learn more and more perl.

My thought is to have the service start a new thread that handles socket connections and responses while the main thread runs the looping processes. Would it be hard for it to view some main thread variables to obtain status?

I'm also noticing modules like Win32-Process and Win32-Job and wondering if they might be more appropriate and/or easier for them to determine status and respond.

Does anyone have any thoughts on a direction for this task?

In reply to Thoughts on how to devise a queryable win32 service by noslenj123

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