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Check Microsoft Windows Scheduled Tasks

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Description:

Checks Microsoft Windows 2008 or higher enabled scheduled tasks excluding or including defined folders, task patterns and authors, returning state of tasks with name, author, exit code, last runtime and performance data to Nagios.

Current Version

https://github.com/willemdh/check_ms_win_tasks/releases/tag/v7.04.190321

Last Release Date

2019-10-31

Compatible With

  • Nagios 3.x
  • Nagios 4.x
  • Nagios XI

Owner

D'Haese Willem

Website

https://outsideit.net

Download URL

https://github.com/willemdh/check_ms_win_tasks/releases/tag/v7.06.191031

License

GPL

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Please visit my blog for more information on this plugin. In case you find a bug or have feature request, please make an issue on GitHub.
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Monitor Sub-Folders
by user7899, September 30, 2023
Hello,
This plugin currently checks tasks in C:WindowsSystem32Tasks, but I only wanted to check tasks in sub folder C:WindowsSystem32TasksNagiosTest.

Help is highly appreciated!!

Thanks
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Windows Server 2016
by ClickIT, December 31, 2018
Has anyone got this working for Server 2016? Works perfectly on 2012R2. I copied my config from 2012R2 to 2016 and the result is The command (check_ms_win_tasks) returned an invalid return code: 255
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Alert if task delete
by cees09, October 31, 2018
is there a way this script could be modified to alert when a task does not exist.
Sadly I do not know much about powershell; so I can't figure it out where to add something like that
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Problems to exec the command
by felipebalbino2, June 30, 2017
Dear,

I follow these steps but its not working properly

Please help me! Im not able to exec this command. I receive the message below:

"No handler for command: check_scheduletask"
Owner's Reply:

Seems like you didn't follow the documentation, as the handler looks completely different:

[/settings/external scripts/scripts]
check_ms_win_tasks=cmd /c echo scripts/powershell/check_ms_win_tasks.ps1 $ARG1$; exit $LastExitCode | powershell.exe /noprofile -command -

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It works fine! Please add option to exit with warning on runnning task
by Pado87, January 31, 2017
Excellent works,
I would like to use this check, but I need to send a warning exit code on running task.
( Sometimes I have the task that doesn't exit at all, like loop, and I would like to receive a warning for that )
Owner's Reply:

Please start with making a GitHub issue if you want extra features.

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can´t download
by mash211, November 30, 2016
Hi, sadly I also can´t download the plugin ....

regards

Markus
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Monitoring Event logs for Scheduled Tasks
by NerdGz, June 30, 2016
Hello,

is it possible with this check monitor an event log inside the Scheduled Tasks ?
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Exclude running tasks
by steve_boohoo, September 30, 2015
Hi great plugin we run it as :
-H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_ms_win_tasks -t 60

Do running tasks still trigger an alert or just ones that fail?
Owner's Reply:

Glad you like it. Running tasks do not trigger an alert. Only failing tasks trigger alerts. They are listed in the status information though. Grtz

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Download
by funbe, June 30, 2015
Dear willemdh

I'm not able to download the plugin.
"Error establishing a database connection."
Is the plugin still online?

Thanks you in advance.
Owner's Reply:

Hey Funbe,
Sorry, my Linode webserver has only 1 GB of RAM and Mariadb sometimes seems to die because of it.. I should add some RAM, but it's bit too expensive. It should be back up now. :)
Grtz
Willem

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great plugin
by paul.jobb, June 30, 2015
I really like this plugin. I made a small mod to allow for overriding the root folder as we group ours in folders based on function, As someone else mentioned its a little easier for alerting in bigger IT organizations.
Owner's Reply:

Thanks Paul. Feel free to fork the project on GitHub and submit a pull request to include the override of the root folder. Grtz. Willem

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Works well!
by rfults, May 31, 2015
2 things:

First, the multi-line output can be resolved by adding `r`n to the end of your output strings. I did this and added the ability to send an email on critical exit in my copy as I cannot rely on Nagios for notifications in our environment.

Second, graphs don't work with pnp4nagios. Any idea how I can get this working ootb?
Owner's Reply:

Hey Rfults,

I'll see if I can do some tests with `r`n . I've tried using it a long time ago though, but my PS knowledge has grown in the meantime. Tx fr the tip. About pnp4nagios, are you 100 % sure it has nothing to do with your configuration, as I have a lot of people using this plugin and you are the first telling me it doesn't work with PNP4nagios. Isn't the perfdata output of the plugin 'standard'? Please make an issue on GitHub for this if you are sure.
Grtz

Willem

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Works Great as advertised, but can a function be added?
by SteveBeauchemin, February 28, 2015
Using this to find failed jobs en mass is great. I have 6 MS Windows Job Server systems specifically used for scheduled tasks. This plugin lets me know when something needs to be dealt with.

There is always a 'but...' in there somewhere. sorry.

But... at my site with such a large IT team, I need to test for specific jobs and send alerts to specific people. Instead of just an 'Exclude' capability, can an 'Include' be added? Or maybe the ability to specify individual tasks, or regex includes? This would let me monitor our many job servers and send directed alerts to each of the 10 teams using it.

Thanks.

Steve B
Owner's Reply:

Steve,

I can't promise an eta on this, but could you please start with making an issue on Github for this?

Grtz

Willem

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Disabled tasks
by olorin, October 31, 2014
Thanks for this great script!

Is there any way to exclude scheduled tasks with status Disabled ?
Owner's Reply:

Hey Olorin,

I made some changes to the script. It should now exclude disabled tasks.

Let me know if it works for you.

Grtz

Willem

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Permissions
by unique367, January 31, 2014
The script works great, but I need to run it as Admin. Do I need to give special permissions or disable something?
Owner's Reply:

Make a user account with local admin permissions on the server you are running the script and configurer the nsclient service to run with the created account.

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Great
by 360IT, October 31, 2013
Easy to setup and works a treat!
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