Antwort: Monitor Services on Windows machines

From: Atencio@act-online.de
Date: 02/25/03

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    To: MOHESOWA BYAS <byasmohesowa@sbm.intnet.mu>
From: Atencio@act-online.de
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:11:40 +0100

    Hi,

    there are two ways to go:

    1.: Use one of the standard systems management solutions - I'd recommend
    netIQ, Tivoli or bmc as (quite) huge solutions with loads of
    functionality. Extremly expensive just for this purpose ;)

    2.: Do it "Your Way". Use the built in Windows alerting and notification
    services, use wsh/csh and VBScript to do this job just for the amount of
    time you need (apprx. 2 days) Or use any other scripting language of your
    favour (Perl, PHP, whatsoever)

    Solution "My Way" (quick 'n dirty):

    1. Either try to Configure "Performance and Warnings" (may have a
    different Name - I'm working on a german Win2k) to automatically send you
    an alert whenever a defined (known) process stops existing - this will
    work only, if you know exactly the name of the process (won't work with
    svchost.exe) or schedule a VBScript which is simply looking for a named
    service and delivers a defined return value for example '0' if the service
    is up and running and '1' if it has not been found (assuming that this
    means the service has stopped)

    2. Schedule a second script that sends you an alert corresponding to the
    return value of your VBScript(s). This would also be the place to
    automatically restart the monitored script, anyway I would do such things
    only after a period of life testing ;)

    Mit freundlichem Gruß

    Daniel Atencio

    Systems-Management Consulting
    ACT IT-Consulting & Services AG
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    MOHESOWA BYAS <byasmohesowa@sbm.intnet.mu>
    21.02.2003 10:29
     
            An: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
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            Thema: Monitor Services on Windows machines

    Hi,
    Is there a way to monitor if services on Win 2K Professional machines have
    been stopped or started? Can monitoring be done remotely?

    Aim is to monitor that users do not shutdown or start services that they
    are
    not supposed to.

    Thanks & Regards
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