Send notification to Zabbix when a process is closed

[sharafy]

Hi All,

How would I go about notifying Zabbix when a process is shut down in Windows?

I can set Zabbix to monitor the application every few seconds but I got too many servers so it is not a good idea to do that, instead, I would like to notify Zabbix when specific application/process is closed in Windows.

Thanks for your help.

Currently running Zabbix 2.0.4

[Heilig]

How would I go about notifying Zabbix when a process is shut down in Windows?

To start, you need to configure the monitoring of service (the best option in this situation, is using of a script that returns 1 or 0 in zabbix). Then create a trigger and action to notify administrators if the service is not available (detailed description of configuration process you can find in documentation).

I can set Zabbix to monitor the application every few seconds but I got too many servers so it is not a good idea to do that, instead, I would like to notify Zabbix when specific application/process is closed in Windows.

Also, please read about zabbix templates. It will help you to speed up the configuration process and reduce the labor expenses.

[Heilig]

Perhaps these two topics will also be of interest to you:

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18806

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26987

[sharafy]

Thanks for the info.

I want Windows to send a message to Zabbix when a process is closed/ended instead of zabbix monitoring the process every X seconds.

I tried to put a small batch file together to monitor an app and then uses zabbix_sneder to notify zabbix when the app is closed.

@echo off
:loop
pslist notepad >nul 2>nul || start "" C:\progra~1\zabbix~1\zabbix_sender.exe -c C:\progra~1\zabbix~1\zabbix_agentd.conf -s hostname -k notepad.trap -o 1
ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul
goto loop

This seems to work ok but if would like to know if there is a better way to do this.

Thanks.