Effective monitoring of Windows services

[tschneider]

Hi,

we want to use ACC-M to replace our SCOM monitoring environment. I'm currently investiging a effective way to monitor Windows services in our environment. I had a look at the OOB checks using winchecks.exe together with the check-windows-service option. This works ok for a single service or a small number of services. However, we need a more flexible way of specifying the name of the service, like using a wildcard. Adding multiple checks into one policy is possible, but not efficient. Also, the winchecks.exe utility does not care for the startup type of a Windows service. A service set to "disabled" should not be monitored any more

Has anybody done something similar to this? I know, we could use HLA and we might do that later down that road. For now, we want to get the basics working,

Thanks

Thorsten

[nirTov]

Hi,

Did you manage to find any help on this issue.

I'm facing the same problem.

Thanks,

Nir

[tschneider]

No, we were not able to find another way that would have worked and are still using SCOM as it is a lot more flexible.

At some point we were considering to monitor all discovered Windows services via [cmdb_ci_windows_service] for all operational service maps. But that would require monitoring via a proxy server and is therefore not efficient. 

Hope this helps

Thorsten