Hey Guys,
A colleague and I are currently trying to get more information out of a few windows hosts. We tried to do that with the Windows Service Discovery, but we don’t get any more services. We already saw a few articles talking about the service discovery, but it was always with the checkmk agent installed. Currently, we can only use SNMP for monitoring the hosts. Is there any way to use the Windows service discovery over SNMP. We also tried to use the Enforced Windows service option, but the service that we set could not be discovered (unknown). Thanks in advance.
Than it is better to do no monitoring on the system. The SNMP information is nearly worthless.
Without agent the only real source of information from Windows is something like “check_wmi_plus”. But this is a complete different security problem 
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No, as the Windows SNMP agent does not provide this information.
Thanks for the fast answers. That’s unfortunate that we cannot monitor it over SNMP. Our problem is that a checkmk agent from the customer is already running on the system. Is there any way that we can run two agents on one host?
It is no problem to query one server from two or more different CheckMK server. The configuration for this only depends on the used agent version.
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That sounds great. Is there a guide or something on how I can add another checkmk server to the agent?
As far as I remember we used in nagios times:
Also against Windows machines.
regards
Michael
But these are processes, not WIndows Services.
And processes can already be monitoried via SNMP in Checkmk.
Ahh, yes thats correct. We prefer to monitor the process because a service could be in start mode but process is dead
No, but you might be able to use the same agent. They might have restrictions in place but if they allow you to enable SNMP monitoring on their servers this should be way more secure
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