Eventlog/syslog

[Steve Shipway]

>I use Nagios ver. 2.0a1 to monitor 50 host
>and about 30 of them is Windows servers.
>How do i include the eventlog in to nagios ?
>I have set up Ntsyslog on all windows servers.

This seems to be the way to go, but unfortunately you can end up with an
awful lot of syslog messages if you have a lot of servers.  You then need
another app to keep track of syslog, and feed alerts in (maybe via nscad) to
a Nagios volatile service.

There is another windows app that will let you query the eventlog directly,
which is good if you are looking for a particular event, but has the problem
of treating an event as a metric.

I'm currently looking at the NTSyslog code to see if I can make it send
NSCAD alerts instead of syslog (easy) and add a filter (hard).  Don't hold
your breath, though.

Steve

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