RE: Revisiting NT service monitoring

I'd strongly encourage you to review the documentation:
http://www.netsaint.org/docs/

-Seth Mitchell

[email protected] 

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 10:13 AM
To: Seth Mitchell
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [netsaint] Revisiting NT service monitoring


I've gotten notified if the page file or system disk were a problem, CPU 
load, along with the host crashing or losing power.

The spooler service syntax is what is now elusive :-(

I'm not sure how to specify the proper interval (this was an inherited 
setup).

Scott

Seth Mitchell wrote:

>The "All services are running" line actually refers to *just* the 
>spooler service, in this context.  Translation: "all services [named 
>spooler] are running."
>
>Have you tried stopping the spooler service yourself, then watching 
>netsaint to see what it reports?  Maybe you've got a problem with your 
>notification setup.  Next, what is your interval set to, for checking 
>the spooler service?  Again, I'm using Nagios now, so this probably 
>doesn't apply, but the place to find the check intervals is in the 
>services.cfg file.  Each host service entry has an entry for check 
>interval (unless you've specified it in a template).
>
>
>-Seth Mitchell
>
>Network Administrator
>Meagher & Geer
>612-312-3341
>[email protected]
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 10:02 AM
>To: Seth Mitchell
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [netsaint] Revisiting NT service monitoring
>
>
>Almost there.
>
>We just had the service die on us again with no warning.
>
>Here is the response from your line in our production environment:
>
>./check_nt -H our_nt_server -v SERVICESTATE -l spooler
>All services are running
>
>
>Well, some services are not running, and I want to specifically target 
>the status of the spooler service.   Continued searches through 
>groups.google and www.google turn up nothing.  The Netsaint
>documentation doesn't help, either, unless I'm looking in the wrong 
>place (not the first time!).
>
>Any additional help (from anyone) would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Scott
>
>
>Seth Mitchell wrote:
>
>  
>
>>How about:
>>
>>./check_nt -H [ip address] -v SERVICESTATE -l spooler
>>
>>-Seth Mitchell
>>
>>[email protected]
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:16 PM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [netsaint] Revisiting NT service monitoring
>>
>>
>>Several months ago I posted a question to the list, with some
>>background.
>>
>>I'll repeat the info here since I didn't get the full answer I sought.
>>
>>We have a Linux box running Netsaint, and an NT 4 Advanced Server
>>Primary Domain Controller which primarly serves printers to the Windows 
>>and Macintosh community and acts as a software installation repository.  
>>It has nsclient installed and running as a service, though I don't know 
>>what version the client is.
>>
>>I'm looking for the exact Netsaint syntax for the Linux side to query
>>the NT Spooler Service so we can be paged if the service on the NT 
>>server dies.  I know port 445/tcp is for Windows File and Print 
>>Sharing, but that doesn't say anything about the status of the spooler 
>>service.
>>
>>We also have an Appletalk network with Services for Macintosh installed,
>>and are running Service Pack 6a with the latest patches.   This also means
>>Print Service for Macintosh is running, if that makes any difference.
>>
>>Thanks for specific leads.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>
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