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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">The svcs check is based on this Powershell command:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service | Sort-Object -Property Name<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">Occasionally I have seen issues when the WMI repository on the host becomes corrupt and this causes empty results. There used to be a decent Microsoft article on this but they’ve reorganised everything… I found
this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><a href="https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Ask-The-Performance-Team/WMI-Rebuilding-the-WMI-Repository/ba-p/373846">https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Ask-The-Performance-Team/WMI-Rebuilding-the-WMI-Repository/ba-p/373846</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><a href="https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/21413-rebuilding-the-wmi-repository">https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/21413-rebuilding-the-wmi-repository</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">I have had some success in the past with the following commands:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">winmgmt /verifyrepository<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">winmgmt /salvagerepository<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">There’s also:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">winmgmt /resetrepository<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD">The articles linked above has more info and explanation, obviously, use at your own risk, make sure you have a backup / snapshot etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#032DFD;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Zak <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Xymon <xymon-bounces@xymon.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brandon Dale<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 21 August 2019 03:04<br>
<b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [Xymon] powershell client blank service list<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This message is from an EXTERNAL SENDER - be CAUTIOUS, particularly with links and attachments.</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">I have one 2016 server that is running the 2.42 version of the powershell client and it’s intermittently returning nothing for the svcs check, so I get a blank section like below, which causes the service check to fail
with no matching services. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">[svcs]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Name StartupType Status DisplayName<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">If I run it manually it works fine each time. It’s happening intermittently – anyone had this before and know what to check? I have tried the 2.27 and 2.42 version of the client and it’s happening on both. It’s likely
related to this specific server but I can’t see anything wrong and it has been working for a long time and reporting the services ok.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="color:black">Regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#000097">Brandon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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