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Is there any way to monitor a disabled service?

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I know this question has been asked already, but maybe this is a feature on the newer versions of PRTG. There are some services that need to remain disabled unless something else is required for specific servers, so can i monitor the services to send a notification when the service is set to start? since they are disabled when i unpause the sensor it sends the error of "service stopped". Thanks

disable error services

Created on Apr 9, 2013 2:23:29 PM



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Hi,

Take a look at Custom Sensor PTF.ServiceStatus.

It retrieves the status of a Windows service and returns a value, where

1=Stopped, 2=StartPending, 3=StopPending, 4=Running, 5=ContinuePending, 6=PausedPending, 7=Paused

Using the sensors parameters, you can provide a comma seperated list of service statusses that will set your sensor in a warning or down state.

Regards,

Created on Apr 10, 2013 7:43:22 AM



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Hello,

thank you very much for your KB-Post. I'm very much afraid this can only be done with a Custom Sensor. The normal query of the WMI Service sensors is:

SELECT Started,State,Status FROM Win32_Service WHERE Name='<servicename>'

So if you would use this query and only use the "State" it should be possible to notify upon the service having a state that is not desired. To check the possible values you can use our WMI Tester and run this query against a few different services in different states.

best regards.

Created on Apr 9, 2013 4:37:19 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Hi,

Take a look at Custom Sensor PTF.ServiceStatus.

It retrieves the status of a Windows service and returns a value, where

1=Stopped, 2=StartPending, 3=StopPending, 4=Running, 5=ContinuePending, 6=PausedPending, 7=Paused

Using the sensors parameters, you can provide a comma seperated list of service statusses that will set your sensor in a warning or down state.

Regards,

Created on Apr 10, 2013 7:43:22 AM




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