Nagios check for wuauserv on Windows Server 2008+

Posted by Mechaflash on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Mechaflash
Published on 2014-06-07T07:00:32Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 9:27 UTC
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From Windows Server 2008+, wuauserv is no longer a service that's ran all of the time and is instead ran as a scheduled task. I'm not sure of the exact behavior of how the scheduled task is created as it seems the schedule is generated and edited by another service. Prior to this, we setup nagios to just check for the running service to ensure it was accepting updates.

My question is, how does one track the proper execution/running of wuauserv service in Windows Server 2008+ to ensure it is accepting updates with nagios?

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