Application monitoring, how?

I've got dot net Winform apps that are running in a backroom server with no
user interaction. They are supposed to run unattended 24 7 365. They are IVR
apps taking orders via telephony. Problem is nobody is looking at them to
know if they are OK. They have err trapping built in and there's logging and
tracing to log files, but nobody there looks at that. What I need is to find
a way to advise one or more managers immediately when an app is hanging or
if an unhandled exception occurred. Handled exceptions are easy, I could
just send them an e-mail. Unhandled execptions are a problem, app hangs, so
you can't execute code that sends en e-mail, its hung. So no one sees it and
no one knows.They only realise after a few hours of info not coming in, then
its easy to fix and restart app. But this is far from ideal. Want to find a
way to alarm admins immediately as problem occurs. Could be things like bad
network connection causing it, stuff unforeseen. Anyone have any ideas on
how to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bob


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