We use a program in house that monitors specific critical services and sends
alerts when any monitored service fails. Every once in a while we are getting
alerts that the LanManServ er and LanManWorkstation services have failed on
two servers. Sure enough, log in to the servers and both services are
stopped. They will start up again easy enough but I'm trying to investigate
the root cause of why they stop in the first place.
There are no indications in the Application, Security or Event logs that
directly refer to the services themselves nor are there any errors that occur
around the same time. Yesterday, both servers had the same problem about an
hour apart of each other. A few minutes before the failures, there are
several Info Event ID 17's for Windows Update Agent followed by an Info Event
ID 3 for AeLookupSvc (full text listed far below). Would seem a little too
coincidental that both have the same events running up to their stop times an
hour apart.
Any one else seen anything like this? I already verfied that no one
installed the updates it mentions.
Event ID 17:
Installation Ready: The following updates are downloaded and ready for
installation. To install the updates, an administrator should log on to this
computer and Windows will prompt with further instructions:
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB932168)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB931784)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB925902)
- Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB930178)
Event ID 3:
The Application Experience Lookup service started successfully.
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