#Phoenix

Restart On Crash on steroids! Phoenix is a Windows Application Monitoring tool designed by Helios Interactive to make deployment and maintaining of kiosk applications easier.

##Features

1. Local

• Restart the executable if it has crashed (with configurable delays)
• Restart the executable if its main window is unresponsive (with configurable delays)
• Execute scripts upon executable crashes and restarts
• Keeping executable's main window always on top (works with full-screen applications as well)
• Supplying command line arguments without writing painful bat files
• Supplying environment variables without changing system settings
• Sending an email on executable's crash with screenshots attached
• Hotkeys for toggling UI, stopping/starting the monitor process and other functionalities
• Taking a screenshot upon executable's crash or user request
• Graphing computer-wide CPU, GPU, and RAM load

2. Remote

• Stop/Start/Monitor the executable via MQTT
• Receiving updates securely over SSH and RSync
• Sending useful metrics (cpu/ram usage, etc.) to a cloud via MQTT

3. Report

• Customize-able email reports can be sent out at any time or upon executable crashes
• Emails can have optional log files attached to them (useful for Unity3D applications)

4. Logging

• Verbose logging of all the activity with a default log rotation behavior
• Ability to capture and log executable's stdout and stderr
• Ability to stream logs to a remote location (Papertrail for example)

##Structure

Phoenix consists of a client written in WinForms C# and an optional CMS written in CakePHP. The client itself can be used independently from the CMS by using an MQTT client (for remote controlling a Phoenix instance). If all you ever need is just a standalone monitoring tool, you do not need to worry about MQTT or the CMS at all.

##Documentation

Take a look at /docs for more information. /docs hold end-user documentation. Latest stable version of Doxygen generated developer documentation is available here.

##License

Phoenix' source code is licensed under the MIT license (MIT). Phoenix uses a number of third-party dependencies:

1. OHM is licensed under MPL v2.0
2. m2mqtt is licensed under EPL v1.0
3. Costura.Fody is licensed under MIT
4. Log4Net is licensed under Apache License v2