Certain applications in Windows machine run in the background as services. OpManager MSP discovers and monitors the status of such services using WMI monitoring. OpManager MSP generates alarms whenever they fail.
To monitor Windows services, OpManager MSP should be installed in a Windows machine. OpManager MSP uses WMI to monitor the Windows services and hence you need to provide the log on details of a user with administrative privilege to connect to the device. So, make sure you configure a WMI credential so that you can apply this to the windows devices.
To monitor a Windows service with OpManager MSP's Windows service monitoring feature, follow the steps given below:
By default OpManager MSP raises an alarm if a Windows service is down. If required you can configure OpManager MSP to raise an alarm if the service unavailable for a N number of times consecutively.
Apart from this, you can configure notification profiles to send out alerts to the concerned person at the earliest. You can also configure workflow actions such as pausing, starting, restarting, stopping, testing and resuming windows services. This helps you automate basic troubleshooting and fault remediation activities.