Add desired services to Pulseway Monitored Services

[Mark G38]

Not really sure if anything like this has been posted before.  I've seen a couple posts about removing services or stopping the monitoring of Automatic services.  What I couldn't seem to find in Pulseway was an easy way to take say an inventory of services on machine, and easily convert specific ones to being monitored.  Ideally having the agent inventory all services on the machines and then giving us a way to select which ones we want to monitor through the web portal would be ideal.  Currently we have to log into the actual computer and do it from within the Pulseway Manager desktop app.  Not ideal when you need to monitor specific services across a larger group.  

 

With that said, I wrote this script which has proved useful to me. Maybe someone else will also find it useful. Apologies if something like this has been previously posted.  This will grab the currently monitored services and add them into the list you specify in the script so that you don't lose any currently configured ones when running this. 

NOTE: This is written mainly for Powershell 3.0 and above.  Things like if ($Service -in $NewServiceList) won't work in PS 2.0.  Need to use -contains and swap them around instead. 

$RegPath = "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\MMSOFT Design\PC Monitor\Services"

$CheckServices = Get-ItemProperty -Path $RegPath -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

 

if ($CheckServices.Count -gt 0) {

    $ExistingServiceList = @()

    for ($Count = 0; $Count -lt $CheckServices.Count; $Count++) {

        $ExistingServiceList += $CheckServices."Service$Count"

    }

}

else {

    Write-Output "No existing services. Continuing..."

}

 

$NewServiceList = @(

##ADD YOUR SERVICES HERE##

)

 

foreach ($Service in $ExistingServiceList) {

    if ($Service -in $NewServiceList) {

        Write-Output "$Service already in New Service List...continuing..."

    }

    else {

        Write-Output "Adding $Service to New List..."

        $NewServiceList += $Service

    }

}

 

$NewListCount = $NewServiceList.Length

 

Remove-Item -Path $RegPath -Recurse

New-Item -Path $RegPath

$NewCount = 0

foreach ($NewService in $NewServiceList) {

    New-ItemProperty -Path $RegPath -Name ("Service" + $NewCount++) -Value "$NewService" | Out-Null

}

Set-ItemProperty -Path $RegPath -Name "Count" -Value "$NewListCount" | Out-Null

$RecheckRegList = Get-ItemProperty -Path $RegPath

$RecheckRegList

Edited August 8, 2021 by Mark G38

[Jamie Taylor]

Thank you Mark for sharing useful content to our community, appreciate it.