service type

[Tractorboy]

I am currently montoring service state,which itslef is great, until I find that I have a server where the service is installed but disabled.

I have found this is expected, as the servcie is their ready if its needed.

what I would therefore like to do is monitoring the type (automatic, manual, disabled) and only alert if a service is not running and not disabled.


I cannot see anything that can achieve that, what am I missing?

[Speedfight]

probably the item will push out the value 7?

you can add "and" to your trigger like this:

& {Servername:service_state[ServiceName].last(0)}<7

if the item will push out "7" the trigger will not be triggerd because the value is greater than 6

edit: check out this wiki item (bottom) https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...agent/win_keys

[Tractorboy]

Stopped = 6

Once installed the service state returns 1-6. The issue for me is that I only want to alert when a service is not running, unless its disabled. Currenly I cannot find a standard key to find information about type (auto, manual, disabled).

I suspect I'll be using wmi, which isn't a problem.

select StartMode from Win32_Service where name = 'Browser' as an example.

[tchjts1]

what I would therefore like to do is monitoring the type (automatic, manual, disabled) and only alert if a service is not running and not disabled.

I cannot see anything that can achieve that, what am I missing?

I don't do alerting on it, but I do this very thing in monitoring using this key: services[automatic,stopped]
I apply this to the Windows template and it will then tell me any services that are set to automatic, but are in a stopped state.

See this page in the Wiki regarding other usage of this key:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/config/items

And look for this about halfway down that page:
services[<type>,<state>,<exclude>]


Then on my Screen for Windows servers I have a dynamic item that will show this for any given server:

[Tractorboy]

Nice idea

I like that idea, and I'll look at options around alerting.

I have also got the service mode back via wmi, and joined that to the service state to have alerting. This way I can alert on specific services, the generic should highlight generally other changes at least so they can be checked and reviewed.