Recovery options for Windows Service feature?

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Hey guys,

We have some circuit-breaker logic in a Windows Service we’re deploying with Octopus (the service completely stops when NServiceBus shuts down because of a loss of connectivity).

We’d like to configure the service to automatically restart (the outages are usually temporary, or occur overnight). I know this is possible via the sc.exe command using the “failure” option (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742019(v=ws.11).aspx)

One of our devops guys is looking to put together a custom script to enable this, but I really like the convenience and clean interface of the existing Octopus feature (prevent everyone from having to dig through powershell scripts to edit builds!). Are there any plans to add a “Recovery” section to the feature?

Or does anyone know a simple method of enabling this, without completely replacing the feature in the step? I see there’s a section for passing arguments to the service executable, but not to sc.exe itself.

Thanks,
-Adam

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Sorry, I just realized something so obvious has probably been brought up before… annnnnnd of course, a quick search reveals:

Uservoice item: https://octopusdeploy.uservoice.com/forums/170787-general/suggestions/5972285-add-support-for-setting-windows-service-recovery-o

Work-around: http://help.octopusdeploy.com/discussions/questions/1737-windows-service-deployment-recovery-settings

I’m going to point the devops team to the 2nd item – looking forward to seeing progress on the feature!

Thanks,
-Adam

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Hi Adam,

Glad you were able to find the responses.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other issues or questions in the future :slight_smile:

Vanessa