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Nagios – how to determine the name of a service in Windows

March 27, 2009 By 23 Comments

I’ve recently set up Nagios on one of our test servers, and the Windows client for Nagios allows you to monitor services (whether they started, stopped, etc.). However, the name of the service to monitor isn’t always the same as the name in the Services application in Administrative Tools.

To find out the name of the service, you’ll have to look at the registry:

  1. Open up regedit (Run, regedit)
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
  3. Navigate to SYSTEM
  4. Navigate to CurrentControlSet
  5. Navigate to Services
  6. Find the service you plan on monitoring. The name of the node is the name you need to enter on the Nagios server as the name of the service.
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Cursor keys not working in Ubuntu 8.10 VMWare client

February 10, 2009 By 2 Comments

After last week’s problem with the Terminal Services client, I also experienced problems with the cursor keys in the VMWare client for Ubuntu 8.10. This was particularly annoying, since I use Quicken in a VMWare machine, and the selection of categories is much easier with the cursor keys than with the mouse.

It turns out that this is a bug in Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10. None of the patches since October 2008 have addressed this issue, but the manual fix is very simple:

  • Open a terminal window
  • Type the following in the terminal:

    echo ‘xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true’ > ~/.vmware/config

After entering this you have to restart your VMWare client session. If it doesn’t work, try restarting the VMWare server, however, since this is a client setting, it shouldn’t affect the server or be affected by server settings.

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