Notification if service is active

[jkinning]

I may be over thinking this and it is Friday. I am tasked with creating a check to make sure a service isn't present and running. The service is the VMware Converter service. On Windows you can simply run the VMware Converter and the converter will install, startup, run and then remove everything after it has converted the machine. I need to make sure no one takes a production server and converts it locally and walks off premise. Is there a way Nagios could check servers for this service and if the service is present and running send out a notification otherwise that status would be alright? I know it is possible I guess I am trying to figure out how that would work.

[BanditBBS]

What agent(if any)do you use for your Windows checks?

[jkinning]

NSClient++ is the agent I am using.

[BanditBBS]

Well, you could use the negate plugin. That way, run the check for the service, if it is stopped or doesn't exist, use negate to change that to OK and if it is there and running, use negate to change to CRITICAL.

[hsmith]

I'll go ahead and give my '+1' to the recommendation of using Negate. We have a good article on using it here. In your situation, I would probably crank the frequency of that check up as well, just to make sure it catches it in time.