monitoring an Exchange server with NC_net, passive mode...

[Steve Shipway]

>I was asked the "daunting task" of monitoring a remote 
>Exchange server with Nagios.
>
>My first idea is to use NC_net in passive mode, using WMI counters.
>
>As anyone tried a similar set up?  If so, can you share your 
>experience?

Yes, we do this.  We also use the same agent (actually pNSclient 2.0.1, but
NC_net does the same thing) to obtain numbers to graph with MRTG.  Works
fine, you just need to pick the right counters.

We check for inbound/outbound queue length, SMTP, services up, and message
throughput.

Steve



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