eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by WinServiceTest

Many server applications in Windows environments run as background services. The WinServiceTest checks the availability of the service that corresponds to an application. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Availability Indicates the availability of this service. Percent A value of 100 indicates that the specified service has been configured and is currently executing. A value of 0 for this measure indicates that the specified service has been configured on the server but is not running at this time.
Service_state Indicates the current state of this service.   This measure reports any one of the following states:

  • Running
  • StartPending
  • Stopped
  • StopPending
  • Paused
  • PausePending

The numeric values that correspond to the above-mentioned measure values are described in the table below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Running 1
StartPending 2
Stopped 3
StopPending 4
Paused 5
PausePending 6

Note:

By default, this measure reports one of the Measure Values listed in the table above. The graph of this measure however will represent the status of this service using the numeric equivalents - 1 to 6.