How to globally disable windows service checks

[tgreaves12345]

I am a new Zabbix user and im not sure if this is possible but, we get tons of service not running messages like below.. Is there a way to globally disable the checks for this service? Or at least disable the notification for it..
What about a global disable on checking all windows services?

Problem name: "GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0" (GoogleUpdater Service 128.0.6597.0 (GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0)) is not running (startup type automatic)

[troffasky]

Global = disable the discovery rule at template level.

Factory windows templates have macro $SERVICE.NAME.NOT_MATCHES. This can be used to filter out services not to match.


Despite the fact that the factory templates have this useful feature, it is inexplicably not mentioned here:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/7.0/en/manual/discovery/low_level_discovery/examples/windows_services

[tgreaves12345]

So I can just make it as below with "|google|" added and it will not report on any services that have google in the name?

[kyus]

So I can just make it as below with "|google|" added and it will not report on any services that have google in the name?

You should use some regex operators aswell. For example, if you desire to disable the "GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0" service, you would need to write the whole service name in the "$SERVICE.NAME.NOT.MATCHES" macro, so, instead of writing the whole name, you can simply use a regular expression, like: Google.*

Using a regular expression is also useful when the service name may change from time to time (just like this google service).

[Daniel4711]

It's easier to name only desired services than to forbid 1000, isn't it?
I would adapt the macro ($SERVICE_NAME_MATCHES).

[tgreaves12345]

I have the template set as below but, i'm still getting the "Problem name: "GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0" (GoogleUpdater Service 128.0.6597.0 (GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0)) is not running (startup type automatic)" showing up in notifications..

[Daniel4711]

I assume that the regex entries are case sensitive. So write google.* in lower case or use a corresponding regex.
Try: (?i)google.*

[troffasky]

I have the template set as below but, i'm still getting the "Problem name: "GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0" (GoogleUpdater Service 128.0.6597.0 (GoogleUpdaterService128.0.6597.0)) is not running (startup type automatic)" showing up in notifications..

The filter is on discovery, so only applies at the point of discovery. If you re-run the discovery, then the Google services will have a [!] next to them if your filtering amendment has worked. Then it will say how long it will be until they are deleted. IF it says they're going to be deleted, you can just delete them manually.

[troffasky]

I assume that the regex entries are case sensitive. So write google.* in lower case or use a corresponding regex.
Try: (?i)google.*

As all the factory ones are in mixed-case then it's probably reasonable to assume they are case-sensitive, otherwise why would they bother?

Unfortunately this template/host-level filter is harder to use than Admin > General > Regular Expressions, which has a testing tool.