Windows Win Services

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The Geneos Windows Win Services plugin monitors Windows Services.

The WINSERV plugin displays information about all services on the machine, only services named in the configuration, or services that match a regular expression in the configuration.

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The universal WINSERV plugin produces a single dataview:

Windows Win Services dataview

Name Description
name

Name of the Windows Service that corresponds to the Service name in the Windows Service manager.
description Description of the service that corresponds to the display name in the Windows Service manager.
status

Status of the service. May be one of the following:

  • Standard Windows defined states: Stopped, Start Pending, Stop Pending, Running, Continue Pending, Pause Pending, and Paused.
  • Additional Geneos status: Unavailable. This means that none of the services on the machine matched the configured predicate.
startup

Start up mode of the service. May be one of the following:

  • Standard Windows defined states: Boot, System, Automatic, Manual, and Disabled.
  • Additional Geneos status: Undefined. This means that the service failed to return a valid start type. Refer to the sample state column for the cause of the error.
delayed start and triggered start

Shows if the service uses a delayed start or triggered start setting.

Possible values are:

  • True — indicates that the setting is in use.

  • False — indicates that the setting is not in use.

  • Undefined — the plugin is unable to query the setting. Refer to the sample state column for the cause of the error.
sample state Displays OK if the service information was retrieved successfully. Otherwise, details of the error will be reported.

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WINSERV has an additional set of context-menu options for starting and stopping processes. This menu can be accessed by right-clicking on a table cell in the WINSERV dataview.

The options to start or stop a process will only appear on the menu if applicable:

Menu Options

Plug-in Configuration Copied

Sample Configuration:

services
  service: dhcp
  service: netman
  service: rasman
  service: ghost

The following parameters can be configured for this plug-in:

services Copied

List of Windows Services to monitor. Defaults to all Services.

Deprecated: Yes (use servicesNew)

servicesNew Copied

List of predicates defining which services should be displayed in the view.

Not specifying any will display all services on the machine.

Mandatory: Yes (unless using deprecated services node)

servicesNew > services Copied

A predicate matched against all services on the machine to determine what appears in the view. Composed of a serviceName and serviceDescription components to match the name and description of the service respectively.

If both are specified then the service must match both the name predicate and the description predicate to be displayed in the view.

servicesNew > service > serviceName Copied

A predicate to match against the name of the service. Either Basic or Regex matching.

Mandatory: No

servicesNew > service > serviceName > basic Copied

Match the service name using basic text matching.

For example:

“Test Match” would match a service called “Test Match” but not “Test Match Other”

servicesNew > service > serviceName > basic > showIfUnavailable Copied

Displays a row for the service with the status Unavailable if the service cannot be found on the machine.

Mandatory: No

Default: False

servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex Copied

Match the service name using Perl Compatible Regular Expression matching.

For example:

“Test.*Match” would match a service called “Test Match” or “Test Other Match” but not “Test Service”

servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex > flags Copied

Flags to alter the behavior of the regular expression matching engine when using the regular expression specified

Mandatory: No

servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex > pattern > data > flags > i Copied

Case Insensitive regular expression matching.

For example:

“tEst Match” would match “Test Match” or “test match” but not “test service”

Mandatory: No

Default: False

servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex > pattern > data > flags > s Copied

Dot matches all regular expression matching.

Note

Windows Services do not have multiline names or descriptions and as such this flag serves no purpose in this plugin but is kept for consistency across regular expression definitions in Geneos configuration.

Mandatory: No

Default: False

servicesNew > service > serviceDescription Copied

A predicate to match against the description of the service. Basic or Regex matching.

Note

The description of the service as read by the plug-in is not the same as that in displayed in the Description column in the Windows Services dialog but the Service Name column instead.

servicesNew > service > serviceDescription > basic Copied

Match the service description using basic textual matching.

See servicesNew > service > serviceName > basic for an example.

servicesNew > service > serviceDescription > regex Copied

Match the service name using Perl Compatible Regular Expression matching.

See servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex for an example.

servicesNew > service > serviceDescription > regex > flags Copied

The same flags as specified in servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex > flags but applicable to the service description.

Mandatory: No

servicesNew > service > serviceDescription > regex > pattern > data > flags > i Copied

The same flag as specified in servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex > pattern > data > flags > i but applicable to the service description.

Mandatory: No

Default: False

servicesNew > service > serviceDescription > regex > pattern > data > flags > s Copied

The same flag as specified in servicesNew > service > serviceName > regex > pattern > data > flags > s but applicable to the service description.

Mandatory: No

Default: False

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