<div>Yishai,</div> <div> </div> <div>You may want to re-review your objectives/ and rereview what nagios can do for you.</div> <div> </div> <div>I find nagios good at monitoring on many levels, while some other monitoring systems may be great for checking availibility, nagios can be leveraged for detailed performance informaition or availibility.</div> <div> </div> <div>As Andreas has expressed, It would be best to add a Linux/Unix host running Nagios to your network instead of trying to get nagios running on an existing windows host. Assuming you use Linux all the software you need to run Nagios are availible without licensing fees, thus all you need is some hardware to run it and an older machine may work well during your testing phase before you roll it out to the larger network. Who knows your network may be small enough to keep it on an older box. </div> <div> </div> <div>If your concern is that your primary network is mostly windows and you want to be monitoring these windows servers, Nagios can do it. (but this is not what you has asked in your email) Nagios is run on a single Monitoring Server (or multiple servers see docs) then Other hosts like windows are polled using plugins (active checks) or the Windows hosts will push (passive checks, machine being monitored initiated the data flow to the Monitoring Host) </div> <div> </div> <div>Nagios has several plugins to monitor Window Servers, to name a few: Most require a plugin installed on the WIndows host</div> <div>SNMP, NC_NET, NS_Client, NS_Client++, NRPE</div> <div>there are more check out <a href="http://nagiosexchange.org">nagiosexchange.org</a> look up plugins then choose windows.</div> <div> </div> <div>Good luck</div> <div>Tony (author of NC_NEt)<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yishai Hadas</b> <<a href="mailto:Yishai.Hadas@aladdin.com">Yishai.Hadas@aladdin.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div lang="EN-GB" vlink="purple" link="blue"> <div> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hello,</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We are evaluating Nagios.</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">One of the key points in our decision whether to choose it as a Health-Monitor framework is the "Windows issue". </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From the documentation and the sources it seems that Nagios is Linux/Unix software.</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Assuming that we want Nagios to run as a framework on Windows that will monitor other Windows machines: </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My Questions:</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1) Was Nagios ported in the past to windows?</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2) Is there any known plan to do it?</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">3) What is the effort that should be invested to do it?</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Any help is appreciated here,</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Yishai.</span></font></p></div><br>************************************************************************************************** <br>The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential.<br>It is intended for the named recipient(s) only.<br>If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager or the <br>sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to anyone or make copies. <br>** eSafe scanned this email for viruses, vandals and malicious content **<br>**************************************************************************************************<br> </div><br>------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br>This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express<br>Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take<br>control of your XML. 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