Thanks for that James, At least I know I'm not just "missing a trick" as it were. I guess I'll just have to put a process in place so that admins add the relevant services to monitor manually when they create new devices and at least I can just start with the manual config on the existing servers.
Thanks again for your help. :-) jmp242 wrote: > I don't know of any way to do what you want. You can define alerting > rules so you're only e-mailed based on class. You may also be able to do > event transforms with python and such as in the Admin guide to change > the severity of events based on class, but I don't think you can specify > to monitor services based on class. > -- > James Pulver > Information Technology Area Supervisor > LEPP Computer Group > Cornell University > > > > Reevsie147 wrote: > > > Greetings all, this is my first post so be gentle ;-) > > > > We have been using zenoss in our test environment for a few months now and > > have been very impressed. The decision has now been made to put it into > > live and I've just stumbled across a problem that is going to give me no > > end of grief. > > > > We are monitoring Windows Services on a few individual servers and it's > > been working just fine. I simply browse to the OS tab, select the Windows > > service I want to monitor and change the value of "Monitor" to true, easy. > > I also noticed I could set the property of "Monitor" of an individual > > service under /Service/Winservice and sure enough, that service will be > > monitored on every Windows server I have, which is great. > > > > My problem is this. We have about 300 Windows servers which fall into > > various categories (Domain Controller, File and Print etc..) I want to be > > able to monitor certain services depending on which category the server > > falls under (i.e: DNS, Netlogon on Domain Controllers and "Server Service" > > on the File and Print machines). I've been looking for quite a while now > > and I cannot seem to find out how to monitor a group of Windows services at > > anything other than the entire /Devices/Server/Windows level, OR, the > > individual machine (under the OS tab). > > > > I have tried to create another device group under /Devices/ called "Domain > > Controllers" but I cannot seem to find how I monitor a group of services on > > that container. > > > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or at least tell me if it > > can/can't be done as I'm pulling my hair out right now! > > > > Thanks in Advance. :) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > zenoss-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=20328#20328 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
