Debug Application Pool Failures

To enable orphaning of a worker process serving an application pool (which keeps failed applications running while your diagnostic tools monitor them), and to attach a debugger to the worker process, you must change the values of three metabase properties. The values of these metabase properties, which are set by running a script, must specified as follows:

  • Set the OrphanWorkerProcess metabase property to TRUE to notify the WWW service to orphan the worker process when it fails.

  • Set the OrphanActionExe metabase property to specify an executable to run when the worker process is orphaned.

  • Set the OrphanActionParams metabase property to configure command-line parameters for attaching the debugger to the worker process. ...

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