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Certain applications in Windows machine run in the background as services. OpManager discovers and monitors the status of such services using WMI. OpManager generates alarms whenever they fail.
Prerequisites
To monitor Windows services, OpManager should be installed in a Windows machine. OpManager 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.
Associate Windows Services to a Device
To monitor a Windows service, follow the steps given below:
Associate Windows Service Monitors to several devices
From the Admin tab, select Windows Service Monitors.
Select Associate option from the Actions menu.
From the drop-down list box, select the services one-by-one and move the devices from the 'not monitored' column to the 'monitored' column.
Click Save.
The selected service monitor is added to the device.
Using Quick Configuration Wizard
You can also use the Quick Configuration Wizard to associate a service to several devices at one go. Here are the steps:
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