auto discover all the services running in a windows server

[MSPk]

Hi,

As part of an implentation our client as us to monitor all the services running on a group of windows servers. Do we have any tool or discovery agent which will discover the services running on a windows machine and give us an option to selct all of them for monitoring?

[slansing]

Currently no, the reason being is that the wizard, will automatically add the metrics you select. There is no real constraint for something that would automatically discover literally anything you could monitor on a windows server. This would not be really possible for things such as performance counters, where you have to define the exact counter you are looking to monitor. In addition, the agent you are using is designed to be able to execute custom plugins that are not automatically installed with it.

[MSPk]

we are not looking at performance counters for monitoring. The requirement is to monitor all the services visible in services.msc window, configuring it manually for 50 odd services is tedious task and trying to understand if auto-discovery will discover all the services visible in the services.msc window

[slansing]

I was using performance counters as an example, there is not currently any way to auto discover services that are running on your windows machines. Though we have talked about working such a thing into Nagios Xi.

[455157]

we are not looking at performance counters for monitoring. The requirement is to monitor all the services visible in services.msc window, configuring it manually for 50 odd services is tedious task and trying to understand if auto-discovery will discover all the services visible in the services.msc window

If you have multiple Win machines to monitor, and anticipate the same group of services being present on all of them, you could also run the wizard on one (taking the time to specify the services you'd like to monitor), then use the Bulk Host Cloning wizard to apply that same set of monitored services to many other Win servers at once.

Just make sure that the one you configure initially is configured just right, since it will be cloned exactly on all of the other ones

[slansing]

Good idea 455157! Thanks for the help!