<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi list, Ethan It would be really nice if the official Nagios project itself offered the nrpe_nt daemon. This would be enormously helpful to convince Windows admins and decision makers to use nrpe_nt on a couple of hundred Windows servers in a critical data center environment. No way they are going to let an exclusively community supported open source tool on the production Windows servers. Reasons like: "yeah open source tools get fixed faster anyhow" or "we have deployed it on 50 production servers and never had a problem" or "you can ask someone who can fix it, the source is open anyway" or "It's more secure because the source is available" aren't really convincing reasons in a large data center environment where ISO certification is priority, ... Don't get me wrong, I'm playing the devil's lawyer here. I just think that nrpe_nt is a crucial part of the Nagios functionality and it falls outside the official Nagios Enterprise framework. Also some nice official msi package would be great (with optimized unattended installs for pushing through sms or by other means). I'm having trouble of getting Nagios taken seriously exectly and only because of this. If I propose to use Nagios, the discussion stops there,... The NRPE daemon for *nix ok, that's a part of the official Nagios project (and thus backed by Nagios Enterprise I presume). What are your thoughts? Cheers, JS </body> </html>