Monitor Windows Service stats from Linux

oakfan52 · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Sacramento, CA

What I want to do is monitor windows service stats from my Linux cacti. For example I just want to know the current state of the spooler service on my print server. so i can set the threshold to alert me if the spooler srevice stops.

elnino · Cacti User Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 205

I know it's possible to monitor processes running on Compaq/HP servers running Insight Manager. As far as monitoring certain services, I'm not sure if that is possible via SNMP.

BSOD2600 · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:06 am Post subject:

Look at the OID .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.4.2.1.7. It maintains the list of all processes and if they're running, paused, etc.

oakfan52 · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Sacramento, CA

I have already found a script9s) to show all running processes. I am looking for services not processes.

elnino · Cacti User Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 205

Thats not going to be possible through SNMP. You'll probably need to run something locally on the server to check the status and then a script on the Cacti machine to grab that data

BSOD2600 · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

Well since the running processes are the services running, thats the closest you're going to be able to get. Otherwise, you're going to need to use WMI to get more detail.

cigamit · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:56 am Post subject:

cigamit · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 2:27 am Post subject:

Actually, here it is now. I had to do a few changes to it, since it was originally used for Cacti v0.8.6c (which is what our production server still runs, way too many modifications to upgrade at this time) but this was exported from v0.8.6i so you shouldn't have any issues with it.

If someone could verify that it works for them also, then I will go ahead and create some instructions for it.

BSOD2600 · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:46 am Post subject:

oh yea, completely forgot about the lanmanager OID stuff.

oakfan52 · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Sacramento, CA

Thanks,

I will work on it tonight.

Scipio · Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Switzerland

Hello,

I could not make this work. So I started debugging. The PHP code was OK but something was wrong. I always had 0 state for every services. After digging in the logs drinking a few coffees, I realize that the oid in the DB was too short... the field was cutting of a little bit of the OID. Here is an exemple:

lex8009 · Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 35

Cigamit, the service monitoring that script and template you created, is that specific for linux, or can be used for cacti on windows?

cigamit · Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: service monitoring

mories · Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 8

cigamit,

i was having some trouble getting this to work.
at first i changed the arg1 field to text as mentioned before.

then i noticed that the index of the services was one character to short.
in the 'view poller cache' screen i saw that the action for the datasource was
"Action: 2, Script: /var/www/html/scripts/win_services.php win_services charlie public 1 14 get servstate 1.77.83.83.81.76.83.69.82.86.69.82"

where it should be .... "11.77.83.83.81.76.83.69.82.86.69.82"

so after some looking around i found that this statement which was there twice was causing the problem.
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if (substr($return_arr[$i]['oid'],0,4) == "SNMP")
print substr($return_arr[$i]['oid'],36) . "\n";
else
print substr($return_arr[$i]['oid'],26) . "\n";
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i changed the values 36 and 26 to 35 and 25 in both occurences, recreated some graphs and they are working now.

i do not have the knowledge to see what happens exactly. i am running this on cactiez beta 3.

Thanks for you great work on the plugins and CactiEZ.

qwertz · Cacti User Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 98

What a beautiful template!

Everything worked perfectly on my ubuntu machine

THANKS

Qwertz