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MetricsHub Community Connectors 1.0.22

Detection by Windows Service (Deprecated)

Warning

The service detection criterion is deprecated. Use WMI or SSH instead as applicable.

When to Use

Use service only when local service presence is the intended detection signal for detecting a specific instrumentation software (like a vendor-specific server agent) running on the same system as MetricsHub. This detection criterion is only supported when MetricsHub is running on Windows.

Syntax

connector:
  detection:
    criteria:
    - type: service
      name: WINMGMT

Properties

Property Required Default Description
type Yes - service.
name Yes - Windows service name (not display name). Must be non-blank.
forceSerialization No false Guarantees operations are performed sequentially against one host.

Runtime Behavior

  • Service detection is implemented through a generated WMI query on Win32_Service.
  • Criterion succeeds only if service state contains running.
  • Requires Windows host type for this check path.

Common Mistakes

  • Using display names instead of service names.
  • Relying on service detection where local runtime cannot execute Windows service checks.
  • Expecting service to replace deeper product checks.

Examples

Community example — the service criterion of hardware/GenBatteryNT/GenBatteryNT.yaml, included directly from the connector source:

- type: service
  name: WINMGMT
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