[Xymon] Setting win svcs for monitoring using Display names

Juha Vuori juha.vuori at pp2.inet.fi
Tue Feb 4 18:27:19 CET 2014


On 01/31/2014 11:19 PM, Mark Mulligan wrote:
> You can add a text string at the end of the SVC statement
>
> SVC Symantec_AntiVirus  startup=automatic status=started "TEXT=Symantec_Endpoint_Protection"
>
> It will display the text for the SVC so they are more human readable
>
> Mark Mulligan
>
> Associate Operations Engineer – Splunk and Xymon Admin
>

Thank you Mark,

That is a bit better.. however, for SVC test

HOST=SRV123
         SVC D070AF2E-E343-40B9-9F23-45B8572309F4 startup=automatic status=started

without TEXT=, e.g. in alert emails for SRV123/svcs, the problem is described as

&red D070AF2E-E343-40B9-9F23-45B8572309F4: No matching service - want started/manual

but with "TEXT=ServiceA" added to the SVC definition, the description reads

&red ServiceA

I'd like to give the description "No matching service - want started/manual" to the poor operators 
getting these alert messages, so some kind of embedding would be needed. Where might this parsing be 
coded? I could look at the code.
This is for 4.3.13, I'll upgrade to the latest level and see if this has been changed somehow..

Br,
Juha Vuori



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