Utility to Monitor Kill / Restart Rogue Process?

Question

I need a Windows (XP/7) utility to continuously monitor always-running processes and kill them (and optionally restart them) if they hang.

There are a lot of interactive tools out there (Sysinternals, most notably). But I have a program on a little-used workstation that needs to run continuously and reliably, both of which are not two of its strong suits :) It requires continual babysitting, and I'd rather just have a monitoring utility (even a paid one) that can kill/restart it on definable conditions -- e.g. CPU > 80%, Status of "Not Responding", etc.

Solution

I've come across a utility that does ~90% of what I need: Kiwi Application Monitor, that can kill/restart processes that consumer too much memory/CPU time.

Comments

[marcusw]

I see this question every single day! Are you spamming and deleting it or is this just a really hot topic?

[Will J]

I've done searches and found similar questions. But nothing quite like what I need.

[Will J]

Matt, Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, it looks like IP Sentry performs lots of monitoring, except application monitoring. The tek-tips thread looks interesting... I wonder if PowerShell can do something similar, and more simply :)