testing a remote Win32 service while being on a Solaris

Tomtom has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there was a way to test if a remote Windows service is running while being on a Solaris ?
I know there is the Win32::Service module, with the GetServices and GetStatus functions, which look like what I need, but I'd need the Win32 module, which I guess is impossible on a Solaris ...

Does anyone have an idea on how to do this ?

Thanks in advance

Tomtom

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Re: testing a remote Win32 service while being on a Solaris by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 22, 2005 at 15:43 UTC
Hi, Depending on what services your looking to monitor Big sister may be a place to start. Its Open Source and written in Perl and is SNMP aware. Hope this helps, Martin	[reply]
Re: testing a remote Win32 service while being on a Solaris by ZlR (Chaplain) on Jul 25, 2005 at 14:26 UTC
It won't answer your question directly but scanning remote services is sooo easy to do from a windows machine. On the other hand running Win32::Services from a Solaris box seems like something difficult to achieve. Therefore, I think the easiest way would be to write a Perl script running on a Windows server and then send the relevant results to the Unix server. zlr .	[reply]
Re: testing a remote Win32 service while being on a Solaris by Transient (Hermit) on Jul 22, 2005 at 17:29 UTC
Could you have a script on the Windows' machine that gets executed via ssh?	[reply]
Re^2: testing a remote Win32 service while being on a Solaris by Tomtom (Scribe) on Jul 25, 2005 at 14:15 UTC
Unfortunately, I don't think it will be possible, since there is a large number of Windows servers, and I can't have a script installed on each of these machines.	[reply]