Monitoring Windows services

[ArteveldehsStefaan]

Hi,

Can someone help me with configuring Zabbix to monitor windows services.

I'm trying to monitor if the print spooler has stopped or not.
I'm using zabbix 1.1.6
I made an Item:

service_state[spoolsv]

and a trigger:

{services_t:service_state[spoolsv].last(0)}=0

Nothing happens when I stop te Print Spooler on the server.
Is there anyone else who had this problem and solved it??

Thanks
Stefaan

[ArteveldehsStefaan]

I found the solution for my problem.

I made an Item:
service_state[Spooler]

Then I made a Trigger:
{....:service_state[Spooler].last(0)}=6

I noticed on my server that when the service was running, zabbix gets "6" and when the service has stopped, zabbix gets "0" from te server.

I hope this explanation was usefull for someone, any other solutions for other problems are welcome

Kind regards
Stefaan

[BrianK]

My apologies for resurrecting such an old thread, but I found this information useful and wanted to add a recommendation of my own.

Rather than checking for the service being "Stopped" (6), you would be better off checking to see if it is NOT "Started" (0). I have seen numerous times where a service could be stuck in another pending state other than "Started".

Modifying the example from above, this is how I setup the triggers:

{....:service_state[Spooler].last(0)}#0

I hope someone finds this information useful and thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

[phoenixx]

spooler CPU loads to 100%

hi guys, just one thing ...

is there a possibility to monitor if spoolsv is not using 100% of CPU ?

currently I have CPU util item & trigger set up and it's working, just wondering if I can monitor spoolsv for CPU load especially ...

it happens often on print server that spooler loads CPU to 100% and I need to restart the service ...

and in addition, can I set up this service somehow to restart automatically by itself after it's stuck or ?

thanks a lot ...