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We often get requests from our customers on how to monitor a Windows server or workstation with StatusCake. So today I wanted to take you through a great method of doing this that you should be able to set up in just a few minutes on a Windows 10 workstation, or Windows server.
We provide this coverage using the PUSH variant of our uptime monitoring – a type of reverse monitoring that requires the device to contact us in order to demonstrate downtime. This is also really handy in situations where your Windows device or server sits on an internal network and will not allow external connectivity.
To get started – just set up a new PUSH type Uptime Test within your StatusCake account, and we’ll provide you with a link per test that we need your device to hit.
From there, on the Windows device or server, you want the “Task Scheduler” functionality found in the GUI explorer view. It’s possible to access this by typing Task Scheduler into your start bar, you should see the program and will be able to open it by clicking on it or pressing enter.
This will present you with the Task Scheduler GUI, and you will want to take the following steps to complete setup, first we will configure the General section.
Next in the Triggers section:
The last screen that we will need to configure is the Actions section:
ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command Invoke-WebRequest ‘YOUR_PUSH_URL_HERE’ -UseBasicParsing
Once that’s complete you can click OK in the open windows to close them, and your scheduled task will now be monitoring your Windows server or Workstation and returning the data into the StatusCake dashboard.
With these steps completed, you will now have a fully monitored Windows Server or Workstation, and all you have to do to add more is repeat the above process. We hope that this will help out users wishing to monitor a wider variety of systems, and we’re excited to bring you further methods in future posts.
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