# 4 Monitoring of Windows Services

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions how to setup monitoring
of Windows services. It is assumed that ZABBIX server and ZABBIX agent
are configured and operational.

##### Step 1

Get service name

You can get that name by going to the services mmc and bring up the
properties of the service you want to monitor it's up/down status. In
the General tab you should see a field called Service name. The value
that follows that you put in the brackets above. For example, if I
wanted to monitor the "workstation" service then my service would be
**lanmanworkstation**.

##### Step 2

Add item for monitoring of the service

Add item with a key service\_state\[lanmanworkstation\], value type
Integer, value mapping Windows service state.