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Windows Service Monitoring

You can configure MetricsHub to monitor a Windows service. In the example below, we configured MetricsHub to monitor the httpd service running on the prod-win-web resource using WMI.

Procedure​

To achieve this use case, we:

  • Declare the resource to be monitored (prod-win-web)​ and its attributes (host.name, host.type)​

    resources:
      prod-win-web:
        attributes:
          host.name: prod-win-web
          host.type: windows

  • Configure the WMI protocol with credentials and timeout​

        protocols:
          wmi:
            username: USERNAME
            password: PASSWORD
            timeout: 30

  • Add an additional connector (WindowsServiceHttpd) using the WindowsService module​

        additionalConnectors:
          WindowsServiceHttpd:
            uses: WindowsService

  • Set the variable serviceNames to specify the service to be monitored (httpd).

            variables:
              serviceNames: httpd

Here is the complete YAML configuration:

resources:
  prod-win-web:
    attributes:
      host.name: prod-win-web
      host.type: windows
    protocols:
      wmi:
        username: USERNAME
        password: PASSWORD
        timeout: 30
    additionalConnectors:
      WindowsServiceHttpd:
        uses: WindowsService
        variables:
          serviceNames: httpd

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