IIS unexpected crash "daily"(service)

[brettums]

Ok this is an administrators headache.....

I have a w2k server (IIS5, obviously) created a site from a database software (called Blackbaud). This database os for an education facility (grading, billing etc) now the database can be active in a web evironment. (Which I have set-up for the past two weeks). Anyway....for the past week IIS has unexpectedly crashed..... I'm not sure if this is the right word only because it's not really crashing. Anyway....the fix is to just "restart" IIS.
I look at the event log... NOTHING, I repeat..NOTHING is logged stating that IIS has crashed.
I'm not really sure where to look /investigate this "head ache".

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thanks everyone!
-Brett
brett@fayschool.org

 

[liquid2502]

I have several w2k Servers in a web pool handled by a traffic director which simply speads usage of multiple web sites across multiple servers both internally and externally. I have a similar problem with one specific web site that causes the same type of situation. It appears more like an IIS hang and not so much of a crash.. Unfortunaly the director detects when IIS is not running, but since technically it is running, traffic still gets directed toward the failing server. It appears to be a single site causing the issue (If I take the site off one of the servers, that server does not experience this issue). Unfortunatly the site causing the problems is a few hundred pages.. and IIS logging never tells me the page where the error occured. Does anyone know of any tools that may be of assistance in narrowing down where the error might be occuring?

thanks,
Joel

 

[tschouten]

Ok I'm experiencing the same issue. I have two identical web servers behind a couple of SSL Proxy/Load Balancers. I see the exact same thing as liquid2502. Right now until I resolve the issue with IIS I have to disable the node in my pool on the load balancer. I left the web server alone and just hit it every once in a while. The web site comes back for a while then it goes away and displays a (no logon servers availble message). Or sometimes a "this page has experienced a problem" error message. But I can't find anything in the weblogs to indicate what is happening. Never seen anything like this before.

Terry