How can I monitor a service on NT/2000 which is in a paused state?

[akbart]

Hi,
We have a service in NT/2000 that has start/stop/pause. How can I monitor this service with DM when it goes in a pause state?

Thanks

 

[Guest_imported]

You can't for the moment.
It's an undocumented api from M$.

The only thing you can do is try to access the application (if this is possible for the application you want to monitor)

 

[bppbme]

If you were really in need of this, and you have perl installed on the endpoint (with the Win32::Service module) it is certainly possible using a custom script (if they haven't already added this feature). Look at something like

http://www.le-berre.com/perl/perlser.htm

to get examples of how to use the module.

A simple test using Win32::Service.

--FTP Publishing service is stopped:
Display Name : FTP Publishing Service, MSFTPSVC
CurrentState : 1

--FTP Publishing service is started:
Display Name : FTP Publishing Service, MSFTPSVC
CurrentState : 4

--FTP Publishing service is paused:
Display Name : FTP Publishing Service, MSFTPSVC
CurrentState : 7

So, it's quite possible to detect the state of the service in this manner. Just write a script that looks at the CurrentState, have DM run it, and check the result.

John