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Can Nsclient++ restart Windows Services?

Is is possible to restart an Windows Service per NSClient++?

thanks

greeting Elric

lordelric
04/16/08 09:34:19 (5 years ago)
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  • Message #346

    in short: no

    slightly longer: nsclient++ is a monitoring agent and thus only supports monitoring things, restarting would be "changing" things and given the security issues that check_nt and check_nrpe has I think that is a "good idea". On the other hand nsclient++ support scripts written in various languages so if you want you can easily write a script that does just that, but I have not done so my self so there is nothing out of the box. But since a lot of people has requested this I am considering it, so maybe for next version? (feel free to request a feature)

    MickeM

    mickem
    04/16/08 10:24:23 (5 years ago)
    • Message #352

      You could probably write a VBScript which would check the status of a service passed in as an argument.

      Here's one I've prepared earlier (seems OK on my test system but no guarantee whatsoever): 

      If WScript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then
	strService = WScript.Arguments(0)
	Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
	Set colRunningServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_Service Where (Name = '" & strService & "' Or Caption = '" & strService & "')")
	For Each objService in colRunningServices
		If objService.State = "Running" Then
			WScript.StdOut.WriteLine objService.Caption & " OK: " & objService.State
			WScript.Quit(0)
		Else
			WScript.StdOut.WriteLine objService.Caption & " error (" & objService.State & "), attempting to restart"
			objService.StartService()
			WScript.Quit(1)
		End If
	Next
Else
	WScript.StdOut.WriteLine "ERROR: Service Name or Display Name required."
	WScript.Quit(3)
End If

      Just call it by running whatever.vbs service (works with the short service name or long one).

      anonymous
      04/17/08 07:34:30 (5 years ago)
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