We are in the process of migrating between management tools here, and I was wondering if there is a way of configuring analysis.cfg to check that a Windows service is not installed. This would allow me to check that machines with the old tool installed do not have the new one, and vice versa.

I tried checking for stopped, but that fails because it's Not Found.

I'm hoping to set up something similar to below

running old AV but not new AV

CLASS=win32 HOST=%^(host1|host2)\. SVC "InoTask" startup=automatic status=started SVC "MsMpSvc" startup=%.* status=stopped COLOR=yellow

running new AV but not old AV

CLASS=win32 EXHOST=%^(host1|host2)\. SVC "InoTask" startup=%.* status=stopped COLOR=yellow SVC "MsMpSvc" startup=automatic status=started

If the functionality doesn't exist at present, I'll submit it as a feature request.

If all else fails, I can monitor the client channel and roll my own check in perl against the [svcs] section.

David.

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