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TSchneider
5 years ago

How can I Monitor Windows Service with Dynamic Display Name?

I have a windows service that the Display name is dynamically appended with the PID each time the service restarts. I need to monitor this service, however, every time the service is started ...
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mnagel
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5 years ago

The normal way I monitor services is via AD, but you would end up with a new instance wildvalue each time it was changed if you use the normal option (WMI-based datasource).  If you use Groovy script DS instead, you could strip the PID portion to build the wildvalue so that the data is stable.  There should be some examples of that in the existing datasource repo, need to dig around....