Agentless Windows monitors

[Nathan Oyler]

Thanks, we were looking at doing something similar.

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> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Glenn Meisenheimer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net; gmeisenheimer at itgroundwork.com
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Agentless Windows monitors
> 
> Hi Andreas
> 
> 
> 
> I can tell you that when you use these scripts you don't need to
>  install ANYTHING on the remote hosts - providing that you are using
>  Win2k or something more recent.  This is because WMI is an integral
>  part of Windows these days, and these scripts query WMI for the
>  same classes of information that are used to populate perfmon.
> 
> 
> 
> Authentication?  We don't need no stinking authentication as long
>  as the proxy server (the server running nrpe-nt and hosting these
>  scripts) has the same Administrator login as the remote hosts.
>   If that isn't the case, you need to call the scripts using the
>  -user and -pass command line options in order to authenticate on
>  the remote machine.  These can be handled the same as any other
>  password in nagios - using resources.cfg and the $USERn$ macros.
> 
> 
> 
> Also, it is possible to set up a user account on a remote machine
>  which permits nagios to access WMI but does not permit an actual
>  login to the remote windows server.
> 
> 
> 
> Andreas, I don't expect these scripts to be the be-all and end-all,
>  but they do demonstrate a method for using scripts to perform
agentless
>  monitoring of one's Windows infrastructure.  I am hoping that they
>  will serve as a starting place for further script development.
>   I already have need for more of these, and the fact that they
>  are scripted makes it easy to roll your own.
> 
> 
> 
> Now to procede?  Here is documentation on the WMI classes available:
> 
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>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk
> /wmi/wmi_reference.asp
> 
> 
> 
> And here is a primer on WMI scripting:
> 
> 
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>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanch
> or/html/anch_wmi.asp
> 
> 
> 
> And, of course... You could always contact Pham Van Hung in Vietnam
>  who wrote these.  He is credited in the header, and is an affordable
>  resource, and great guy.
> 
> 
> 
> - Glenn Meisenheimer (gmcookie)
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