checking windows processes

[Mark A. Lappin]

Good Morning!

I guess I'm trying to do something "weird" since I've not been able to find an example (yet).  I have some Windows hosts where I need them to stay logged in and running various "things"  - for software not written to run as a service.   Easy enough, if explorer.exe is not running (along with the other processes I have service checks for, I get errors and notifications.

Other systems however, should not be logged in, and for various reasons, sometimes get left logged in if somebody just disconnects their RDP session without logging off or doesn't log off the local console.  I need a check for the "OK" state to be if explorer.exe is not running and for the error state to be if explorer.exe IS running.

Below are the two definitions, pretty much straight out of the default example configuration files which I modified just slightly.  I'm not sure where I got the "=stopped" on my check_command from, its been a while since I've modified anything in Nagios until this week.

Any ideas somebody would be willing to share would be greatly appreciated!

define service{
        use                     generic-service
        hostgroups              windows-servers
        service_description     Explorer
        check_command           check_nt!PROCSTATE!-d SHOWALL -l "Explorer.exe"=stopped
}

define command{
        command_name    check_nt
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s nagios12345 -v $ARG1$ $ARG2$
        }



--Mark



Mark A. Lappin, CCNA, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator | Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry
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