Start windows service from zabbix console via script?

[louis-m]

Anybody know how to start a windows service from the zabbix console ie a trigger has gone off saying service x has stopped.
Right click > script which starts the service?
I know the script will have C:\windows\system32\sc start <servicename> but how do you get the <servicename> from the trigger? eg {TRIGGER.VALUE}

[icol]

Maintenance

Hi
Why would you like to do that?
Normaly a service window is created for a planned work, like patching, upfgrades and so on. So before you do your work you creare a maintenance in zabbix
If you don't want to creat it manually you clould use the api https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...tenance/create

[louis-m]

Hi,
it's just an option really. Sometimes we might want to restart a windows service and if we are in the zabbix gui and we have a list of those services, we might want to restart them manually rather than go to the server itself etc

[icol]

Actions

To do that you need to go to Configuration/Actions and configure one action

Write the name and the conditions to trigger an actions like:

Maintenance status not on manatenance
Trigger name like <trigger name>

Go o next tab and configure a operation.
click new for a new operation

There you can configure a Remote command (in field operation type)
In target list write the host you want to execute the operation
Execute in Zabbix Agent
Command: net start "<service name>"

[louis-m]

Hi,
yes I'm aware that can be done. I don't want to have to write the service name in particular into the script but rather get a variable passed eg from a trigger
For instance, let's just say a trigger has come up with "Print Spooler" stopped on HOST A
Now I know I could go into the host itself and start it etc but it would be handy if I could do this from the Zabbix GUI by net start {TRIGGER.VALUE}

It's a nice to have that's all.

[zimeon]

Has anyone found a possible solution to this? I've tried with tags but they are not available when running a script from the GUI dropdown.

[CristianR]

Hello,

Is there any solution for making available the name of the service when running the script from the problem dashboard?

Thank you.

Cristian

[markosa]

So {ITEM.VALUE} isn't working? Atleast for me it's working, I've created script for manual event action and from there i do get value which is assigned to event. Script used for testing: echo {ITEM.VALUE} {TRIGGER.NAME} >> /tmp/test_dummy.txt

[CristianR]

markosa , thank you very much for your input. It works with the {TRIGGER.NAME}. Previously I was trying on the host menu instead of event menu that's why it did not work.

Though I am still not able to extract a piece of information from the {TRIGGER.NAME}.
This is my code:

c:/windows/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe {TRIGGER.NAME}.Split('"')[0] | Start-Service

The {TRIGGER.NAME} returns the text in this form: "abc-cloud-config-server" (ABC Cloud Config Server) is not running (startup type automatic) . What I need is to get only the first part of the string which in our example is abc-cloud-config-server

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[markosa]

How about {ITEM.VALUE} or {ITEM.VALUE1} or {ITEM.VALUE2} ? What does those return? I think that you should have within some value that service name, trigger name is partly built from item values/names

[CristianR]

markosa {ITEM.VALUE} returns "Stopped (6)" while {ITEM.VALUE1} and {ITEM.VALUE2} return null.

I was able to make it work though by putting {TRIGGER.NAME} under quotes.

This is the working code:

c:/windows/system32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/powershell.exe '{TRIGGER.NAME}'.Split('"')[0] | Start-Service

Thanks again for your help.

Cristian