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Monitoring a service when started

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How to get PRTG to alert when a service is started as opposed to when it goes down? Also is ther ea way to check for a process when it is running rather than the current method?

alerts inverse prtg service wmi

Created on Mar 27, 2014 2:33:42 PM



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Hello,

thank you very much for your KB-Post. Please try using a self-written Custom Exe/Script Sensor to solve this special scenario, which is not covered by PRTGs default sensors.

best regards.

Created on Mar 28, 2014 2:02:57 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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The only built in way to monitor a process is via WMI monitor.

Created on Mar 29, 2014 9:06:20 PM




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