Rule Engine - Don't Add Disabled Service or non-existent process.
The rule engine almost allows me to apply a set of service or process monitors to a group of servers easily. The problem is, there isn't real intelligence to the rule engine. If I say "Monitor Service X" it will do that regardless of the status of that service. So if the service exists, but is in a disabled state, I will get an alert that the service is down.
The same thing with the process: If it doesn't exist, OpManager still adds a monitor to the device but it obviously doesn't pull back data.
There should be an option to "ignore disabled or non-existent services and processes" in the rule engine.
this would allow me to say "if the MS SQL Process exists, then TRY to add all of these service monitors" in a single rule without worrying about individual SQL versions or specific services that aren't running.
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