A user asked about creating a service trigger and potential options such as "not equal to RUNNING" were suggested. Another user suggested checking for corresponding processes that start a service and monitoring that instead. However, it was mentioned that triggering off of a service that runs under svchost may not be possible. The user ultimately decided to submit a feature request for this capability.
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Is it possible to make a service trigger to catch when a specific service is in a Running state? Using a "NOT Stopped" status results in results similiar to using Not Configured. Feel like I’m missing something obvious!
maybe "not equal to RUNNING"?
Hi Brian, I’m trying to find out if a specific naughty service is running that shouldn’t be so I can stop it. The current filter options are only checking for Stopped services or services that don’t exist. Downside, I need the exact opposite lol. There isn’t a service status of "Running" in my filter editor.
Using "Service Status is not Stopped" just blew up my mailbox with machines that returned a status of N/A because the service didn’t exist 😅
is there a corresponding process that starts that you could monitor?
sry about your mailbox. 😉
It runs under svchost so not as straight forward to trigger off of iirc. I think my best bet for now is just a small hourly scheduled script to check and stop the service.
might be out of luck then: https://support.controlup.com/docs/using-windows-services-to-activate-triggers
you could make a combo of not not configured and not stopped
I’m not sure that’ll work. To limit the amount of noise in the metrics database, we only send "not configured" and "stopped" states to the monitors.
Run invoke-cuquery -table Services -fields *. You’ll see there’s only status 8 (not configured) and
1 (stopped).
A trigger on not not configured and not stopped leaves no records
Sounds like a feature request I’m about to put in LOL. Thank you both!
Ah, well scratch that. Already a couple fr’s out there!
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