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KeepAlive was developed mainly for the use on Servers, although it works on Windows 95, 98, 2000 and Windows ME. KeepAlive provides the ability to constantly monitor applications running on the server. Through experience, we have found that no matter how well the applications have been written, there still are many times when they will crash. KeepAlive scans the executables every 60 seconds to ensure that they are running. If the executable is not running, KeepAlive will restart the executable that has failed.There are several notification options within KeepAlive. The first is e-mail notification. If KeepAlive restarts the failed executable, an e-mail can be sent of this action. Within the e-mail, is the time and executable that was restarted. The second notification can be accomplished by using the command line option. The command line option will execute after a restart. The command line option gives the user more flexibility for providing or interfacing alarms. One usage can be to interface to a paging application. Another would be to run another executable or job after a restart. KeepAlive also comes with audible and visual indications of an application startup.KeepAlive can be configured to check the executables at different time intervals, depending upon need of the user. KeepAlive also provides a descri`ptive log of events. This log can be used for troubleshooting or just as history.KeepAlive is the safeguard against prolonged failure of