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gmiller

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May 21, 2009 8:39 AM

Hi

Was wondering if anyone could help? We were trying to pick up SNMP data from process from windows servers and were coming across this error:

ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT code 0x00000424

This is the command we used to try and install the win exe service:

/usr/local/zenoss/common/bin/winexe -U OURDOMAIN/monitoring%secretpasswd //192.168.1.2x "ipconfig /all"

Any help would be much appreciated with this one! :? :?

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1. May 21, 2009 8:43 AM (in response to gmiller)
Failed to install service winexesvc

If you're trying to check out processes via SNMP - why are you using winexe?
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gmiller wrote, On 5/21/2009 8:39 AM:

Hi

Was wondering if anyone could help? We were trying to pick up SNMP data from process from windows servers and were coming across this error:

ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT code 0x00000424

This is the command we used to try and install the win exe service:

/usr/local/zenoss/common/bin/winexe -U OURDOMAIN/monitoring%secretpasswd //192.168.1.2x "ipconfig /all"

Any help would be much appreciated with this one! :? :?

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2. May 23, 2009 8:53 PM (in response to jmp242)
RE: Failed to install service winexesvc

Hi there,

I'm trying to use winexe to automatically restart failed or hung Windows services on a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2 Box, from a Zenoss Virtual Machine (the latest one available, 2.4 I think), and still encounter the same error.

I've tried to look into it in a bit more detail, but there's not much information out there about winexe. It might be possible to just copy winexesvc.exe and install it as a service, and then go from there, but that's not really the best method.

Winexe is connecting with the correct username and password (since if it's incorrect it'll ask for another password), but from there just this 0x00000424 error. Does anyone know what it means?

Regards,
Waylon Kenning

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3. May 23, 2009 9:13 PM (in response to basicallythis)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc

I have the same problem

Posible solution

http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?t=9857

winexe 0.90

http://eol.ovh.org/winexe/

"gmiller" wrote:

Hi

Was wondering if anyone could help? We were trying to pick up SNMP data from process from windows servers and were coming across this error:

ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT code 0x00000424

This is the command we used to try and install the win exe service:

/usr/local/zenoss/common/bin/winexe -U OURDOMAIN/monitoring%secretpasswd //192.168.1.2x "ipconfig /all"

Any help would be much appreciated with this one! :? :?

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4. Aug 11, 2009 2:57 PM (in response to rebelinux)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc

I just downloaded the VMWare instance and am experimenting with it and I've received the same problem. I'm unable to run winexe - it reports this error:

ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT code 0x00000424

I checked and my Winexe is version 0.80. Unfortunately, downloading version 0.90 crashes with the same glibc errors that are listed above. I can't compile from source because autoconf.sh reports old build tools and refuses to run. I can't find the file winexesvc.exe to install it manually on the remote servers. Any suggestions?

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5. Aug 11, 2009 8:03 PM (in response to tspence)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc

If there was some way to fix this winexec thing, I'd really like to get my Zenoss installation working. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I could manually install winexec?

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Peter Gallagher
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6. Nov 17, 2009 9:54 AM (in response to tspence)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc

I was able to get this working as per the instructions on another post.

Although the service failed to register the winexesvc binary was sucessfully copied to my target machine, and it was simply a matter of registering the service manually on this machine with the following 2 commands.

sc create winexesvc binPath= C:\WINDOWS\WINEXESVC.EXE start= auto DisplayName= winexesvc

sc description winexesvc "Remote command provider for Zenoss monitoring"

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7. May 13, 2010 9:58 AM (in response to Peter Gallagher)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

There's a bug in winexe/service.c file. Get the fresh source from SVN (see below), then find and change the line:
#define NT_STATUS_SERVICE_DOES_NOT_EXIST NT_STATUS(0xc0000424)
into:
#define NT_STATUS_SERVICE_DOES_NOT_EXIST NT_STATUS(0x00000424)
in winexe/service.c then recompile and enjoy :-)

The error code 0x00000424 is explained here for example:
http://infosys.beckhoff.com/content/1031/tcdiagnostics/html/tcdiagnostics_win32_errorcodes.htm

Instructions how to get fresh winexe and compile are:
cd /usr/src
mkdir winexe
cd winexe
svn co http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/wmi/Samba/source
cd source
./autogen.sh
./configure
make proto bin/winexe
cp -f bin/winexe /usr/local/bin

They're slightly modified from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?s=cf38d6cc32f1d06db1f02d437f198e03&p=9098595&postcount=8

HTH

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8. Jul 30, 2010 8:00 AM (in response to chojrak11)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

Has this been incorporated into any existing distribution, either of Zenoss or an RPM or such of winexe 0.9? Or must we compile it ourselves?

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9. Jul 30, 2010 10:19 AM (in response to jmp242)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

The trunk code still contains the bug:
http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/wmi/Samba/source/winexe/service.c
(in the block of #includes and #defines near the top).

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10. Sep 17, 2010 2:53 PM (in response to chojrak11)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

I have to throw my shoe into the ring here. I have a bunch of WMI systems that are not polling into Zenoss. I'm running the WMI Data Source and the zenfperfwmi log file is chalk full of IO_TIMEOUT errors. However, I try and run this stript:

winexe -U domain/username%password //system 'typeperf -q'

I hoped to confirm the WMI was connecting. The results of that command were.

[winexe/winexe.c:120:on_ctrl_pipe_error()] ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT code 0x00000424

Almost all of my systems only have partial information from WMI. The services/filesystem/CPU etc information populates but I don't have the freespace information or the status of the services. As such I can't monitor the services or free space since none of that information is working. The default Zenoss graphs are populating, however.

My WMI environment are 32 and 64 bit servers running 2k3 and 2k8. There is no correlation between an OS and it working or not working.

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11. Sep 17, 2010 5:05 PM (in response to dclabs)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

You're not going to make progress unless you fix this bug and recompile it yourself according to my instructions above. For an unknown reason authors still haven't fixed that bug (see http://dev.zenoss.org/svn/trunk/wmi/Samba/source/winexe/service.c near the top). Maybe they're not aware of it.

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12. Sep 20, 2010 10:14 AM (in response to chojrak11)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

Thanks.

I've updated the source and made the changes you suggest. I recompiled and restarted Zenoss instance just to be sure. However my WMI script is still producing the same error.

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13. Aug 8, 2012 10:58 AM (in response to chojrak11)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

Hi there

following the instructions above I get the following error

-su: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory

it looks like some of the files are missing is anyone able to help?

cheers

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14. Oct 2, 2012 7:29 AM (in response to Nathan Harris)
Re: Failed to install service winexesvc [SOLUTION]

This guide worked for me people/chitambira/blog

Now i can start and stop windows service from linux

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