[mrtg] Re: Problems with MRTG threshold checking when running as a service

[Dan Foxley]

Since srvany is running the app, try setting the "AppDirectory" for Srvany
in the registry, or moving the threshold files to where your running the
.cfg files from.

dan 

Ps. Checkout pycron.exe, too cool. I like it better than srvany.

-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch] On
Behalf Of Fairey, Simon
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 5:14 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Problems with MRTG threshold checking when running as a
service

Hi,
 
I'm using MRTG 2.10.14 on Windows 2003 without problem apart from when
trying to use the threshold checking features when MRTG is running as a
service. If I start MRTG from the command line (using the same syntax used
when running as the service) the threshold stuff works fine - the batch file
specified in ThreshProgI does what its supposed to do.
 
When MRTG is run as a service nothing appears to happen. I had thought it
was permissions related but have ruled that out by running MRTG from the
command line as the same user the service is running as.
 
I have seen another post to this group with the same issue and there was
some suggestion that it might be related to path names not being absolute. I
have also ruled this out - the service (using srvany) starts MRTG as:
 
C:\perl\bin\wperl.exe c:\mrtg-2.10.14\bin\mrtg --logging=eventlog
c:\<folder>\<mrtg config file>
 
and the threshold program:
 
ThreshProgI[<name>]: c:\folder\test.bat
 
To keep things simple whilst trying to identify the cause of this problem
the batch file just echos some text to a file (again using absolute path
name to the file).
 
I've tried running filemon (from Sysinternals) to see get some idea of what
might be going wrong. When MRTG is running from the command line you can see
the wperl process open the batch file, query is then close it, and then a
cmd.exe process spawns, which I presume is executing the batch file. When
MRTG is running as a service the wperl process queries the batch file as
before, but no cmd.exe process spawns. The relevant user has execute
permissions on cmd.exe.
 
There also does not appear to be any log messages indicating a problem.
 
Can anyone suggest something I am missing / could check?
 
Thanks,
 
Simon.
 



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