Services State of Windows servers

[Gonela]

Hi Team,

Is there any way to monitor check one services state .

Ex : Startup status of services configured like :

1. Automatic
2. Manual
3. Stopped

We need what is the status of particular service state of above through monitoring.

[jomann]

Taking a quick look through the exchange I didn't see anything directly monitoring the actual startup type. If you know of a way to get the startup status in Powershell you can definitely install an agent like NCPA and run the script to check for these values. It would require a bit of custom development on your part. The agent itself only shows the current status of the service, such as running or stopped.

[tgriep]

I found this Forum post with instructions and a link to an external plugin that may work for your needs.
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 08&start=0

The external plugin is called check_winservice and the website for where you can get it is here.
https://www.itefix.net/check_winservice
Try it out and see if it will work for you.

[lpereira]

i have found that very interesting as well. However the plugin seems to be part of a package that needs to be purchased. Is that correct?

[jomann]

It may not have been when the forum post was created, but it does seem to be the case now.

[Gonela]

Here is the command . But i'm getting wrong information about service .

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H XX.XX.XX.XX -t 120 -c check_service -a "filter=name in ('wuauserv')" "crit=start_type!= ('auto' OR 'delayed')" "show-all"

Nsclient Version : 0.5

Output :

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Server 1  --> Windows Update Service	Warning	warning(wuauserv=stopped (delayed))
Server 2  --> Windows Update Service	Ok	         wuauserv=stopped (delayed)
Server 3  --> Windows Update Service	Ok	         wuauserv=stopped (delayed)
Server 4  --> Windows Update Service	Warning	warning(wuauserv=stopped (auto))
Server 5  --> Windows Update Service	Ok	        wuauserv=stopped (delayed)

[jomann]

In this list here, it has a default value for the warning option which might be the reason you're getting warnings (no criticals because they are all in either auto or delayed state) https://docs.nsclient.org/reference/win ... ce_options

Particularly this part

warning-default.PNG

The ones with the state=stopped next to them are stopped so it is giving a warning, but not a crit.

[Gonela]

@jomann : Still not able to understand , Could you please share syntax for this.

[scottwilkerson]

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H XX.XX.XX.XX -t 120 -c check_service -a "filter=name in ('wuauserv')" "crit=start_type!= ('auto' OR 'delayed')" "warn=not state_is_ok()" "show-all"

[Gonela]

Still problem not solved . still showing same . i mean wrong output in NagiosXI