[Xymon] check for Windows service NOT installed?

[David Baldwin]

So I worked out an easy way to do this for the particular services in
question - luckily they all have a .exe process running (which is not
true of all services), so I just used a PROC test instead.

Config fragment below.

# running old AV but not new AV
CLASS=win32 HOST=%^(host1|host2)\.
        SVC "InoTask" startup=automatic status=started
        PROC MsMpEng.exe 0 0

# running new AV but not old AV
CLASS=win32 EXHOST=%^(host1|host2)\.
        PROC InoRT.exe 0 0
        SVC "MsMpSvc" startup=automatic status=started

Now to clean up the hosts that has flushed out :)

David.
> We are in the process of migrating between management tools here, and I
> was wondering if there is a way of configuring analysis.cfg to check
> that a Windows service is not installed. This would allow me to check
> that machines with the old tool installed do not have the new one, and
> vice versa.
>
> I tried checking for stopped, but that fails because it's Not Found.
>
> I'm hoping to set up something similar to below
>
> # running old AV but not new AV
> CLASS=win32 HOST=%^(host1|host2)\.
>         SVC "InoTask" startup=automatic status=started
>         SVC "MsMpSvc" startup=%.* status=stopped COLOR=yellow
>
> # running new AV but not old AV
> CLASS=win32 EXHOST=%^(host1|host2)\.
>         SVC "InoTask" startup=%.* status=stopped COLOR=yellow
>         SVC "MsMpSvc" startup=automatic status=started
>
> If the functionality doesn't exist at present, I'll submit it as a
> feature request.
>
> If all else fails, I can monitor the client channel and roll my own
> check in perl against the [svcs] section.
>
> David.
>


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David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks)
Information and Communication Technology Services
Australian Sports Commission          http://ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617


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