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mmatec01
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11 months ago

Windows Services Monitoring with quite a bit more Automation applied

So today we use LM's Microsoft Windows Services DataSource to monitor Windows Services.  This DS uses Groovy Script and WMI calls under the hood to fetch the service metrics like state, start mode, s...
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  • Mike_Moniz's avatar
    Mike_Moniz
    11 months ago

    You can create a DataSource loosely based on the existing WinService Datasource and provide it with an Autodiscover section that will populate all the services and keep them up-to-date. For example auto-add any services set to autostart (with some exceptions).

    But I’m pretty sure examples of this has been shared in the forum in the past and a quick look at the Exchange shows several DataSources that might do what you want already:

    https://conres.logicmonitor.com/santaba/uiv4/modules/toolbox/exchange

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Mike_Moniz
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11 months ago

You can create a DataSource loosely based on the existing WinService Datasource and provide it with an Autodiscover section that will populate all the services and keep them up-to-date. For example auto-add any services set to autostart (with some exceptions).

But I’m pretty sure examples of this has been shared in the forum in the past and a quick look at the Exchange shows several DataSources that might do what you want already:

https://conres.logicmonitor.com/santaba/uiv4/modules/toolbox/exchange