NSClient 1.0.8.0 Released

Stanley Hopcroft Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU
Fri May 9 04:01:51 CEST 2003


Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your words about this matter and 
compliment you on your approach.

This is a very clear description of a Nag approach to the FAQ of 'how do 
I monitor NT event logs ?'.

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:23:14AM -0400, Dean Bishop wrote:
> Good morning,
>  
>             I just had to set up a site with nagios monitoring eventlogs on
> windows servers.  I did this by installing the BackLog service on each of
> the windows servers configured to send all events to the nagios box.

Backlog is now known as Snare.

>  The
> nagios box acted as a syslog server.  I then configured swatch to watch for
> specific things (e.g. certain events AND certain servername).  Upon finding
> such an instance in the syslog file swatch executed a perl script which
> formatted the event message, added the rest of the items necessary for a
> nagios external command, and then pushed it into the nagios external command
> file.
>

  
> This hogs resources on the nagios box.  It would be more efficient to let
> the windows servers watch for events in their own logs and then only fire
> pre-formatted events at the nagios server.  This would effectively
> distribute the load.


>  
> Later,
> dean
>

Yours sincerely.  

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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