Win2k: check_snmp (and nsclient) woes

[Travis Albrecht]

Has anyone ever tried connecting to the nsclient port and tried to get
anything meaningful... I'm finding it difficult, but I'm not a hacker or
programmer

Travis Albrecht
Business Systems Engineer
Werner Electric Supply

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Russell [mailto:Jeremy.Russell at chickasaw.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:27 AM
To: Ben Goodwin; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Win2k: check_snmp (and nsclient) woes

Well, you can configure nsclient with a password, but that is only as
secure as nsclient is I think...  You can setup your network to be more
secure though.  Use some ACL's to block out any machine but your
monitoring box to be avle to touch the nsclient port.  I have heard
something about running nsclient over ssl also, maybe a capability in a
future release or hack for the current release, I don't know details.
As for the ACL's there are probably your best bet for the most secure
solution.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Goodwin [mailto:ben at atomicmatrix.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 11:15 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Win2k: check_snmp (and nsclient) woes

I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out a relatively secure way
to
monitor my win2k boxes with nagios... I don't like the security model of
nsclient (unless I'm missing something) .. so I was hoping to go down
the
road of snmp restricted via community and IP ... but I'm stumbling on
figuring out how to check to see if a process or a service is running. .
or
check disk space etc..  I see the disks and processes show up, but I
surely
don't want to hardcode an OID into my check_snmp command .. and I don't
even
see a list of services ..  is SNMP not the way to go for this?  Is there
a
way I can secure nsclient such that everyone inside the firewall doesn't
have read access to the data?

Thanks,

  -=| Ben




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