check_nt vs. cygwin

[Marc Belanger]

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I choose to perform active service checks, rather than passive, at this 
stage in my nagios configurating|testing|tuning project. With that in 
mind...

I prefer check_nt with the NSClient++ service. Small footprint on the 
windows side, and fairly robust. 2 gotchas That I'm willing to deal with 
are;

1) The clear text password in NSC.ini, not a big deal, but still rubs me 
the wrong way.

2) I have to restart the NSClient service every once in a while or it 
starts refusing connections. I haven't tracked down why as yet, but I 
don't think its the NSClient.

- -Marc

Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Rancier, Jeff wrote:
> 
>> Is there a general preference regarding these two methods of retrieve 
>> remote
>> information from Windoze platforms?
>>
> 
> Depends on your preference.
> 
> With Cygwin you have a lot to install and can be cumbersome or against 
> policy.
> 
> NC_Net with its WMI capabilities allows you to do a single install and 
> set up domain auth to query other windows machines using native methods.
> 

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