NSClient++ or NRPE

[Antonio Pereira]

I have continued on the NSClient++ path. I have recently added windows counters such as thread count and paging on the windows machines. It seems to work well for now. I will continue to keep expanding and see what it does. 

 

Thanks for all the input.

 

From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Frost, Mark {PBG}
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:40 AM
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ or NRPE

 

This discussion intrigues me...

 

We've been using NRPE_NT with our Windows boxes (probably around 200 that we're monitoring) because I think I had the impression that this was the more commonly used of the two (NRPE/nsclient++). We primarily use it to call the wincheck_counter.exe file to probe Windows' PDH counters.  However, from seeing the responses so far I'd say it appears that the majority of folks are using nsclient++ instead.

 

I had considered nsclient++ at one time because it doesn't appear that nrpe_nt is actively developed anymore, yet nsclient++ has a lot of activity.  When I tried it out, I did have some difficulty getting it working properly and eventually gave up on it.  Then again, I maybe just didn't give it enough time and didn't understand how it worked well enough.  It seemed to me that you mostly were able to probe things that it gave you the opportunity to probe.  With NRPE_NT and wincheck_counter.exe (which doesn't seem to me to be run by all that many people either...) we could probe anything that was returnable by the PDH lib.

 

I also had the impression that nsclient++ carried a bigger footprint than NRPE_NT did.

 

One problem we've seen with NRPE_NT and wincheck_counter.exe is that it seems rather unreliable on Win2k machines -- at least for the things we commonly check like cpu, memory and disk space.  A number of times it will just time out.

 

Another list member indicated that they'd had crashes with Win2k3 -- we've never seen that.

 

Given that nsclient++ seems much more widely used and is still actively developed, I'm considering giving it another shot.

 

This issue of figuring out what's widely used has come up for me before with Nagios.  When I was trying to figure out whether to use nagiosgraph or nagiosgrapher, for example.  Just because something's in the Nagios Exchange, doesn't mean it's any good, actively supported, or perhaps even worth using.  I wish I could send out a poll :-)

 

 

Mark

	 

	
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	From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marco Borsani
	Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:24 AM
	To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] R: R: NSClient++ or NRPE

	I have Nagios 1.4 on Linux server.

	374 hosts (Linux/Unix,Windows and network equipment)

	877 services

	 

	More than 40 windows systems have NSClient++ installed

	 

	Regards

	Marco

	 

	
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	Da: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Per conto di Antonio Pereira
	Inviato: giovedì 7 giugno 2007 17.36
	A: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] R: NSClient++ or NRPE

	 

	The way I have set up is Nagios 2.7 on Linux and installed NSClient++ on windows servers. I am monitoring the windows servers using NSClient++.

	 

	Is this the best option? I want to make sure before I go any further in configuration. I am presently monitoring 2 windows servers.

	 

	From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marco Borsani
	Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:30 AM
	To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] R: NSClient++ or NRPE

	 

	On unix/linux system you can use only NRPE.

	 

	On Microsoft system you can use NSClient++ (that contains both features of old NSClient and NRPE).

	 

	Regards

	 

	Marco

	 

	
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	Da: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Per conto di Antonio Pereira
	Inviato: giovedì 7 giugno 2007 17.07
	A: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Oggetto: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ or NRPE

	 

	Hello,

	 

	I am trying to figure out which one is better to use and I am having a difficult time to determine which is better. So I figured I would ask all of you.

	 

	Which one is better NRPE or NSClient++?

	 

	Thanks

	 

	 

	 

	 

	
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