Morning all,

SE isn't really where I live, so bear with me. FactoryTalk View SE V13, network distributed, one HMI server and a Tag Alarm and Event server on the same Windows Server box, four clients. Every time IT patches that box and it reboots, the HMI server comes back and the clients reconnect, but the alarm summary stays empty. No banner, no error, nothing. Someone opens the Administration Console, right clicks the alarm server, Start, and it's all back inside a minute.

Diagnostics shows the alarm server not loaded after the reboot and nothing before that, and I checked the licence, that's fine. The alarm database on SQL Express is happy enough once the server is running.

Three reboots, three for three. So what is supposed to tell that alarm server to start? Could anyone point me in the right direction?