The virtual machine (win) must tell the host (win) that it is functioning normally. How?

Question

Computer networks

Good afternoon!
On a windows 7 host running vmware worksatation 12.0.1, inside 3 windows 7 virtual machines. Sometimes the console freezes and (not tested) one or two running processes.
I want to find out about what happened and, if possible, use some tool to reboot machines with a frozen console / process (s) automatically.
Please advise how to implement this?

Ps. While there is an idea to track the lack of changes on the console screen for a certain period of time by some scripting language. If there are no changes, then reboot. But I would like a more elegant solution.

Answer 1

Have you considered the option with zabbix? After all, you can monitor the state of the processor and memory, and send a notification to the administrator in case of overload. Well, or more radically - immediately reboot ...

Answer 2

What do you mean by "functioning normally"?
If, as you write, "ping passes to them," then the service for responding to ICMP requests is working normally, which completely contradicts your "any processes inside the machines themselves stop running."
That is, even if you create some other service, it will also answer that everything is fine.

Answer 3

Windows has this functionality in VMM on 2012 R2. It monitors the process and in which case it can reboot either the process or the VM. But only works on latest OS Windows/