Thanks Duane
Nguyen Nguyen
Solidsystems, Inc.
5610 Guhn Road
Houston, TX 77040
713-481-2460
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From: "Duane Waddle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] NT service
> If you are using the 'NT Service' plugin, it uses the Win32 API to check
an
> NT Service. This API uses NETBIOS (probably NetBIOS over TCP) to see if
> the service is running. The up/down status returned by this check is
> whether or not the service is running -- just like you would see in the
> 'Services' section of the control panel. What this could mean is that a
> service is 'running' and therefore considered up, even if it is
> malfunctioning and not answering requests from other systems on the
> network.
>
> This is in contrast to the 'TCP/IP Service' plugin, which actually
connects
> to a application port on the remote system and makes a request of it --
> expecting a valid response.
>
> --D
>
> Duane Waddle
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine..." -- RFC1925
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> "Nguyen Nguyen"
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> 08/02/01 07:08 AM
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> Does anybody knows how WUG is doing the actual checking of the nt service?
> Does it use that particular port or something else?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nguyen Nguyen
> Solidsystems, Inc.
> 5610 Guhn Road
> Houston, TX 77040
> 713-481-2460
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