Remove critical alert for google update services

pallax · January 31, 2024, 3:40pm

Hi,

we have a lot of windows servers that are monitored with Icinga. We get alarms for disk, mem, and services etc.

We have a problem with google update services reported as critical alarm in Icinga. They are set as automated start in services.msc and we remove the alarm if we change the services to manual start instead. However they are being automated again after updates I guess or restart of the servers.

So one solution would be to uninstall chrome browser from the servers - but that is not really fixing the issue rather just removing the cause for it.

We can also better remove the services as described here: How get rid of the Google Updater? Solved - Windows 7 Forums (sevenforums.com)

But is it any way to somehow let Icinga accept google update services so we can have the services as automatic startup and not risk having to manually update chrome and other google software on the servers?

I attached the critical alarm from Icinga for reference.

Best regards, Pallax

moreamazingnick · January 31, 2024, 9:04pm

github.com

Icinga/icinga-powershell-plugins/blob/master/plugins/Invoke-IcingaCheckService.psm1

<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Checks if defined services have a specific status or checks for all automatic services and if they are running
    and have not been terminated with exit code 0
.DESCRIPTION
    Invoke-IcingaCheckService can be used to check the state of specified services against a user definable threshold.
    In addition the plugin can be used to check for all services which are configured to run automatically on Windows
    startup by not defining a specific service during plugin call. In this case the plugin will return 'CRITICAL'
    for services which are set to `Automatic` and not running, but only if the service ExitCode is not 0.

    More Information on https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-plugins
.FUNCTIONALITY
    This module is intended to be used to check whether one or more services have a certain status.
    As soon as one of the specified services does not match the status, the function returns 'CRITICAL' instead of 'OK'.
.ROLE
    ### WMI Permissions

    * Root\Cimv2
.EXAMPLE
    PS> Invoke-IcingaCheckService

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The icinga powershell plugin Invoke-IcingaCheckService has the option -Exclude to exclude services.

but that screenshot looks super old, are you using icinga1?

pallax · February 5, 2024, 7:47am

Hi, many thanks for the link and help!

Yes I think this is icinga1. (I am fairly new on this company and new to this type of work)

I will try that exclude command. To exclude, would I write the service name as presented in services.msc or the .exe file that runs for that service?

moreamazingnick · February 5, 2024, 8:03am

I think it‘s the official service name, not the language dependent display name