Send alert if Windows service IS running?

[torlok2002]

Hi all, first post to this board. I've been playing with this idea for a couple of days and have yet to make a working solution. I have a Windows server that has a service that allows remote access. I want to alert the team if it IS running so there is a reminder to turn this service back off, in effect limiting remote access to only the times it is needed.

I've tried playing around with the check_nt command as follows:

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check_nt -H $SERVERNAME$ -p 12489 -v SERVICESTATE -l $SERVICENAME$

Here is the service in the host which checks as normal (alert if not running):

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define service{
        hosts                           $SERVERNAME$
        service_description             Apache Tomcat
        check_command                   check_nt!$SERVICENAME$
        use                             generic-service
        notification_interval           0 ; set > 0 if you want to be renotified
        contact_groups                  IT
}

but am just returned the service name or an OK state. Any ideas on how to basically do the reverse of what Nagios is intended to do?

Thanks in advance!

[agriffin]

There is plugin called negate which does what you want. In your command definition, just add $USER1$/negate in front of your real check command.

[torlok2002]

Great! Exactly what I wanted.
Thanks for the assistance!

[agriffin]

Glad I could help!