Item keys

See also: Minimum permission level for Windows agent items

Monitoring Windows services

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for setting up the monitoring of Windows services. It is assumed that Zabbix server and agent are configured and operational.

Step 1

Get the service name.

You can get that name by going to MMC Services snap-in and bringing up the properties of the service. In the General tab you should see a field called ‘Service name’. The value that follows is the name you will use when setting up an item for monitoring.

Step 2

Configure an item for monitoring the service.

The item service.info[service,<param>] retrieves the information about a particular service. Depending on the information you need, specify the param option which accepts the following values: displayname, state, path, user, startup or description. The default value is state if param is not specified (service.info[service]).

The type of return value depends on chosen param: integer for state and startup; character string for displayname, path and user; text for description.

Example:

• Type of information: Numeric (unsigned)

• Show value: select the Windows service state value mapping

Two value maps are available Windows service state and Windows service startup type to map a numerical value to a text representation in the Frontend.

Discovery of Windows services

Low-level discovery provides a way to automatically create items, triggers, and graphs for different entities on a computer. Zabbix can automatically start monitoring Windows services on your machine, without the need to know the exact name of a service or create items for each service manually. A filter can be used to generate real items, triggers, and graphs only for services of interest.