Sending HTTP request to notify Nagios of the problem

[Todd A. Green]

Another possibility would be to write a windows interface to the Nagios
Service Check Acceptor (NSCA).  It's used to accept passive service
check results from clients.  


>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:44:42 -0500 (EST)
>From: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org>
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Sending HTTP request to notify Nagios of
the problem
>
>On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Giedrius Astrauskas net wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am using my application to monitor Windows machine,and I need to
notify
>> Nagios about the results of my application.
>> I read through documentation. I understand that what I need is a
>>plugin that
>> sends a text message describing status and code.
>> Where could I find more specific information on building plugins for
Windows
>> machine, specificaly - how plugin should interface with Nagios.
>> 
>> Thank you
>> 
>> 
>> Giedrius
>> 


>The nagios plugins need to run on the host running the nagios daemon.
>
>Currently there is no simple extensible plugin daemon like NRPE for 
>Windows.  So you need 2 programs: 1 on the Windows machine to monitor
>the 
>application, and 1 on the nagios server to query your program on the 
>windows machine.
>
>
>If your subject is implying the need to check an application using
HTTP, 
>check_http should give you all the facilities you need.

>-- 
>
>-sg




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