At last - Windows Services monitoring with WMI!

[mrh]

Hi all,

Please find enclosed a way that WORKS to monitor Windows services from a Windows cacti box.

You must pay attention to the exact service short-name which is case sensitive when entered in the new graph wizard.

Cheers

PS: Find the re-exported graph template below in this post

[BSOD2600]

Nice... you might want to post a few graphs of it too.

[nitraat]

Hi, I added the template and i'm getting no results in my graph.
Is this the right input string: cscript <nologo> <path_cacti>/scripts/Win32_Services.vbs <hostname><servicename>

[mrh]

Please, find attached an image of the graph you should get, when the service stops, a white gap is showed. Also you can set a high threshold of -1 to get an alert when it stops -if you're using thold plugin-.

Regarding the problem you have, nitraat, have you checked from the command prompt that you can use "cscript Win32_Services.vbs hostname shortservicename (case sensitive)" and you get a value? Once you achieve this bear in mind the scheduled task account needs to have admin privileges on target hosts.

Hope to be of help

[nitraat]

Hi, I added the template and i'm getting no results in my graph.
Is this the right input string: cscript <nologo> <path_cacti>/scripts/Win32_Services.vbs <hostname><servicename>

Problem was a space was needed between hostname and servicename!
Works perfectly, even the alerting when it goes to 0.
Thanks!!

[lex8009]

i've followed the instruction but it's not displaying the line on the graph and the service status shows NaN on the graph.

running the cscript command on the command line returns a -1 value.

C:\WINNT>cscript c:/inetpub/wwwroot/cacti/scripts/win32_services.vbs localhost W32Time

-1

Any idea is greatly appreciated.

[mrh]

-1 is a good response! That means the service is running. Try to stop it and you'll get a 0 instead.

Also, make sure the data input method is this way: cscript <nologo> <path_cacti>/scripts/Win32_Services.vbs <hostname> <servicename>

I think the export I did is not fully working as is, so you need to change manually the <> characters. Nevertheless I post another export again (find enclosed).

Cheers

[lex8009]

mrh, I re-imported the the script (thanks by the way), recreated the graph setting in the device profile and saved it. The service is running on the server, got a -1 after running the script from the command line.

it creates the graph, but no line. also on the graph, the service state shows 0.

[lex8009]

seem that when it creates the cscript cmd, it combines the hostname and the service name (output from cacti.log file):

CMD: cscript //nologo C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/cacti/scripts/win_services.vbs localhostW32Time, output: U


even though in the xml template file, there's a space in between and i've added another space, so there's actually 2 spaces.

<input_string>cscript //nologo <path_cacti>/scripts/win_services.vbs <hostname> <servicename></input_string>

[mrh]

lex, change the lt and gt symbols for < and >, so your input method should keep this way:

cscript <nologo> <path_cacti>/scripts/Win32_Services.vbs <hostname> <servicename>

the problem is that //nologo variable cannot be put directly in the input method, so I needed to define an input variable <nologo> and associate to a fixed value (//nologo).

maybe my export is still wrong, but you should able to make it working by taking a glance to similar input methods in your cacti installation.

hope you get it working!

[lex8009]

thanks, mrh. that did the trick

[Mikeos]

Could somebody please post how the correct string that should be used in the XML to add the necessary space, at the minute I've got:-

<input_string>cscript //nologo <path_cacti>/scripts/win_services.vbs <hostname> <servicename></input_string>

Is this correct ?

[mrh]

&lt = <
&gt = >

This error happens many times when importing/exporting templates

[mrh]

ops, you also need to remove the ";"

[Mikeos]

mrh,

Thanks for the info although I'm still struggling could you post me an
example of the xml string that works ok for ?

Cheers

-Mike