Zabbix 6 - Windows Service Monitoring

[Punster Madhatter]

Hello
I have fresh install of Zabbix 6 on Ubuntu 20.04 and I have added a few Windows Servers to Zabbix using the "Zabbix agent active".
After a some time some Windows services report problems and I want to disable monitoring of a few Windows services.

I have searched these forums and Google without any success on how to disable certain Windows services from monitoring.

Can some on describe the correct procedure to accomplish this?

[tikkami]

Use these macros
{$SERVICE.NAME.MATCHES}
{$SERVICE.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}
{$SERVICE.STARTUPNAME.MATCHES}
{$SERVICE.STARTUPNAME.NOT_MATCHES}

https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/os/windows_agent_active?at=refs%2Fheads%2Frelease%2F6.0

[tikkami]

Use these macros
{$SERVICE.NAME.MATCHES}
{$SERVICE.NAME.NOT_MATCHES}
{$SERVICE.STARTUPNAME.MATCHES}
{$SERVICE.STARTUPNAME.NOT_MATCHES}

https://git.zabbix.com/projects/ZBX/repos/zabbix/browse/templates/os/windows_agent_active?at=refs%2Fheads%2Frelease%2F6.0

[Punster Madhatter]

Hello

Thank you for your reply.
You mean like this.

PS I will also need to delete and re-create the hosts for these settings to apply I guess.

[tikkami]

No, you don't need to recreate hosts.
You need to wait until LLD is being run next time (default interval is 1h).
Because you are using active agents, you can't rerun discovery rules from frontend.

If the service is not discovered anymore by LLD, that item is marked to be deleted after keep period (default period is 30d).
Now item can be deleted manually and it won't be discovered anymore.

[Punster Madhatter]

Great. Thank you for clarification. Very helpful.