Agentless Windows monitors
Glenn Meisenheimer
gmeisenheimer at itgroundwork.com
Tue Mar 29 20:02:01 CEST 2005
Hi Andreas
You said:
Ok, so no client needs to be installed and it can (according to
MS
themselves) be done securely, but the configuration process to set
it up
still requires hands-on configuration of the machine in question
which
will most likely be more confusing than installing a package on
each of
the monitored hosts and with a far greater impact if it's done wrong.
Perhaps you don't understand. No agents need to be set up on the
remote machines and the only configuration required is that a user
needs to be set up so that nagios can access the machine. You
have to do the same thing with many of the other Nagios monitoring
tools. Also, the user can be a domain user, so you really don't
even need to touch the monitored machines at all.
And hopefully, if you have Windows systems in your infrasturcture
you shouldn't find it too confusing to set up a user.
Now your earlier point of scalability bears investigation. I have
not rolled out thousands of these monitors yet, so I obviously
need to do some benchmarking to see just how scalable this approach
is. To do it correctly, I need to use an enterprise level server
as the proxy host. (if one intends to do large numbers of these
things this would make sense).
One could, of course, use more than one proxy server. That would
be scalable. Nothing says that you can't have more than one of
these things out there. Perhaps you could select one machine in
each domain and install nrpe-nt and these scripts on it.
Now, where to find an enterprise server that I can appropriate for
this testing... hehe Might be time for a midnight foray through
the lab!
Glenn A. Meisenheimer
Customer Support Manager
Groundwork Open Source Solutions
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