Checking Windows Eventlogs with Nagios

[Peter Edmonds]

Hi Philipp,

You asked:

"I wonder if it is possible to monitor the Windows 2000+ Event Logs with any
kind of Nagios Plugin. Like sending an alarm mail when Error with ID xyz
accours or someting like that. Could you give me a hint, which plugin i
could use for that? I already googled for that, but had no luck in finding
an answer."

Assuming that the events you want to monitor are logged in the Event Log(for
your Windows boxes), you could centralise yor Windows event logs using
Eventlog to Syslog Utility from

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/Documents/UNIX/evtsys/

and the logsurfer plugin from

http://naplax.sourceforge.net/check_logsurfer.html

in conjunction with logsurfer from

http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/logsurf/

These 3 utils are easy to setup and make the task of monitoring Windows
Event Logs much simpler. The check_logsurfer plugin allows you to specify
regular expressions to check for, so you can tune the plugin to respond to a
particlar event log message.

Pushing your logs out to a central Linux box is a better solution - you can
analyse the logs more easily using perl or whatever.

Peter Edmonds



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