How to monitor Windows 1 task in Task Scheduler

[Renate]

Hello,

I hope that someone can help me with this.

I want to monitor 1 task in the Task Scheduler on a windows server 2016 Standard server. I want to check if the result is (0x0).
Working with Zabbix 3.4.1

I want to do this without script.

Can anybody tell me how to do this please?

[MarekHanus]

I think you could focus on Event log monitoring. See https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...s?s[]=eventlog

You can catch events about Task scheduler tasks from Windows event log and then trigger them based on EventID or string in value for example.

I have similar item created:
Name: Task scheduler
Type: Zabbix agent (active) -- zabbix agent in active mode is necessary
Key: eventlog[Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational,,,,,,skip]
Type of information: Log

Hope this help you.

[Renate]

Thank you for your reply MarekHanus

I have made some similar item:

Type: Zabbix agent (active)
Key: eventlog[Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational,"\job name",,TaskScheduler,,,skip]
Type of information: Numeric (unsigned) --> changed it to log

and trigger:

eventlog[Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational,"job name",,TaskScheduler,,,skip].last()}<>0

both are green/ enabled in zabbix, but when i let the task crash the trigger does not go off

[MarekHanus]

I guess it is not possible to use last() function because event log returns string.

I have been using this expression for similar triggers

{Template OS Windows Event Log:eventlog[Microsoft-Windows-TaskScheduler/Operational,"\Monitoring sender",,,201,,skip].str(return code 0.)}=0

[Renate]

I have adept the last() function to your example. But it still didn't work.

So a have made the same trigger on an other server with Windows server 2008 R2 and that works fine, but on the new server windows server 2016 Standard the trigger doesn't work :-(

[Renate]

I found out what was wrong. In de zabbix agent conf de Host name was not exactly the same as in Zabbix. When that was fixed, the trigger worked just fine.
Everything is working now, happy

Thank you for your help

[zabbix_IT]

Hi,

I wanna monitor different windows scheduled tasks on a windows server 2016. Is the use of eventlog[] via item and trigger still up to date?
How does it work?
I am using zabbix agent 2 and zabbix 6.0.

Thanks.