Script to send email notification when sql server stops..

Question

Hi,
I am looking for a script through which I can monitor sql server service status and if it down for any reason, I want to send email to Dba team.  How to achieve this? Did anyone has already done similar kind of monitoring?
Again, I am not looking for any 3rd party monitoring system like SCOM etc.. I looking for a batch file or script outside sql which can solve this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Answer 1

There are two ways to do it:
1). There is a job option wherein you can put the alert message and then in schedule option, select to alert you only when Sql Agent Services get restarted. So this way you will come to know when Sql Agent Services got restarted.
2). From any centralize\third server apart from your database server\host, you can put a job to execute almost around every 5 minutes to check service status and then call a batch file which will call OSQL code to execute sql code for sending alert
based on the message content you want to like below:
Scripts below, even you can tweak more on this as per your environment requirement and even you can merge some scripts to make one out of two or similar, however keeping each separate one helps to track scripts.
First Batch File with Name: ServiceStatusCheck.bat
with below content
Echo "Checking Service Status"
:Query
FOR /F "tokens=4 delims= " %%A IN ('SC QUERY "XXXXXXXXServiceNametobeCheckedPutHere" ^| FIND "STATE"') DO SET status=%%A
IF "%status%"=="STOPPED" GOTO Shootout
:Shootout
'email for success in first attempt
'Put path of batch file
"D:\Script\Successemail.bat"
Exit
Second Batch file with below content which will call Sql file to send alert: File Name: Successemail.bat
ECHO "Send Email Alert"
OSQL -E -S XXXXXXXXX -i "D:\Script\Successemail.sql"
ECHO "Done"
Exit
Third Sql File to send email: File Name: Successemail.sql
Declare @bodyT varchar(200)
Set @bodyT  =
'Service was found in stopped status and Date & Time::'
 +replace(convert(varchar(20),GETDATE(), 102),'.','/')
 +'::'
 +convert(varchar(20),GETDATE(), 108)
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
    @profile_name='Profilename',
    @recipients = '[email protected]',
    @body  = @bodyT,
    @subject = 'Service was found in stopped status, Check Details!!'
GO
Santosh Singh