Restart Service on Windows using Event Handlers

[Sampath.Basireddy]

Hello There,

I am trying to configure event handler to auto start/restart Service on Windows Servers with NCPA.

I do have link for "how to restart a Windows service via NRPE and NSClient++". Is there any similar documentation for NCPA as well?

Thank You

[gormank]

Off topic but my first defense would be to tell the service to restart itself twice before dying. Example for nsclient:

sc failure nscp reset= 86400 actions= restart/120000/restart/120000/none/120000

[Sampath.Basireddy]

That is already in place. My requirement is kind of different. I want to configure event handlers on NCPA.

Starting of Service when it goes down is not my exact requirement, but for other reasons where any application has a dependency of a service and it might need a service restart.

[scottwilkerson]

Here is a document outlining the procedure

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... -nrpe.html

[Sampath.Basireddy]

That link has instructions for NRPE and NSClient++. Is there a similar document for NCPA?

[mcapra]

Refer to the documentation for the NCPA plugins endpoint:
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help/2.0/ap ... es-plugins

Basically, you store the script (such as one that restarts a service) in the plugin_path and call it via the plugins endpoint:

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https://my.host.com:5693/api/plugins/<plugin name>/<arg1>/<arg2>/?token=mytoken

Or as a check_ncpa command:

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check_ncpa.py -H my.host.com -t mytoken -M 'plugins/restart_service.bat'

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks @mcapra this is exactly how to do it.

[Sampath.Basireddy]

Perfect. Thank You @mcapra

I created a command like below and selected it as Event handler and it worked..

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$USER1$/check_ncpa.py -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t <String> -M 'plugins/restart_service.bat'

[scottwilkerson]

Excellent! Going to Lock this thread