Windows Client...

Phil Costelloe philc at foundation-it.com
Fri Jan 28 15:24:08 CET 2005


Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Phil Costelloe wrote:
> 
>> Jason Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> Along these lines, has anyone written anything that checks that all
>>> services marked startup 'Automatic' are in Running state? Such a
>>> thing would greatly simplify configuration.
>> 
>> I do that using an NRPE_NT plugin called chkwin_service_auto that
>> came originally from the tsmgsoftware.com forum when that was alive.
>> It is indeed a very useful thing to have.
> 
> Depending on the services - you may want to be careful.  I've come
> across 
> some dependent services that are marked automatic, but only start when
> actually need by the primary service.

I only monitor a few internal servers using the plugin and 
that isn't the case on those, but I can believe it might happen.

I guess each service check is implicitly asking a question - the more
general the question, the more an alert is just a prompt to
investigate and ask further questions rather than being an answer in
itself. "Is an automatic service not running?" is a fairly general
question compared to, say, "Is the disk full?".

Phil


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