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Monitoring using "WinPrintMon", why are some universal forwarders reporting "ProcessRefresh: Failed ProcessRefresh: error = '0x800706ba'. Restart."?

bravon
Communicator

I monitor using "WinPrintMon" on several hundred servers - 17 of those servers gives this error-message at each poll:

04-14-2015 12:05:09.990 +0200 ERROR ExecProcessor - message from ""C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk-winprintmon.exe"" splunk-winPrintMon - monitorHost::ProcessRefresh: Failed ProcessRefresh: error = '0x800706ba'. Restart.

It's always the same 17 servers - any tips?

[WinPrintMon://printer]
type = printer
interval = 600
baseline = 1
disabled = 0
index = windows

[WinPrintMon://job]
type = job
interval = 600
baseline = 1
disabled = 0
index = windows

[WinPrintMon://driver]
type = driver
interval = 600
baseline = 1
disabled = 0
index = windows

[WinPrintMon://port]
type = port
interval = 600
baseline = 1
disabled = 0
index = windows
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1 Solution

bravon
Communicator

The solution was painfully simple - the "Print service" was disabled on the servers. Enabled the print service and the errors stopped.

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lmakonnen2
New Member

how did you enable it?

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bravon
Communicator

The solution was painfully simple - the "Print service" was disabled on the servers. Enabled the print service and the errors stopped.

edoardo_vicendo
Builder
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lmakonnen2
New Member

I have same issues and the problem is that I don't hove access to the servers reporting this error. Can you share how you enabled the services.

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robert_miller
Path Finder

Did you ever figure out the answer to this? I am seeing the same errors appear on our servers.

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