NSClient 0.0.1 RC1

[Michael Medin]

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> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas Ericsson
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 10:33 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient 0.0.1 RC1
> 
> Michael Medin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have just released RC1 of NSClient++ it has basic functionality and
> > supports most of the basic commands of NSClient. (only REQ_COUNTER,
> > REQ_FILEAGE and REQ_INSTANCES are missing).
> >
> 
> Nice work. I'll get to testing immediately. On which versions of MS
> os'es should this theoretically work?

Theoretically it should work on *all* w32 based OSes (that's I believe NT 3.51 and Windows 95 and above). But given the kernel architecture of w98 I'm not 100% sure all the APIs I use are there/do what they should. 

But to be realistically, NT4, W2K, W2K3, XP should work. (I have tested on 2K, 2K3, and XP. Haven't had time to test on our NT4 servers yet (as they are in production it's hard to get access to them ;)

> 
> > It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus/
> >
> > Simple installation instructions:
> >
> > Unzip to a directory of you choice, run "NSClient++ /install" to
> > install the service definition and then "NSCLient++ /start" to start
> > the service. If you rather not run it as a service run "NSClient++
> > /test" to start the program interactively. A few important things: be
> > sure to comment out either ConsoleLogger.dll or FileLogger.dll
> > depending on if you run it interactively or as a service. Also note
> > that this by default binds to port 1234 (as to not collide with
> > NSClient).
> 
> Perhaps it would be prudent to get rid of the ancient MS Exchange
> problem and have it bind 12248 or some other address in the "free fire
> zone" (non-standard, non-common) by default instead?

Well it is of course configurable in the INI-file but a high default port might be better. Will do in the next release.


// Michael Medin

> 
> > Check out readme.txt for details on how to install /
> > configure and use the application.
> >
> > As for resources/leaks I ran this for about 24 hours on a few of our
> > servers during yesterday polling about 5 times each second without
> > much impact (used 2.2Mb memory and pretty much no CPU, according to
> > ProcExp www.sysinternals.com)
> >
> >
> >
> > **IMPORTANT**
> >
> > Don't go changing all you NSClient's as of yet, this is a work in
> > progress, settings/options/things might change and you will have to
> > do it all over again, but please feel free to test this on all your
> > installations :)
> >
> >
> >
> > A few things I am interested in (read feedback):
> >
> > 1, Does it work on <insert strange hardware/software/setup here>?
> >
> > 2, Does it work as expected?
> >
> > 3, Settings is not 100% compatible with NSClient, should I add an
> > option "settings=read from nsclient" or similar to make it a *drop
> > in* replacement?
> >
> > To me this feels a bit excessive as you need to "install" the exe
> > file anyway so you might as well fix your own custom config and
> > install that as well.
> >
> > 4, Installation procedure? (I don't really know at all how people
> > generally installs these kinds of things so feedback here would be
> > interesting)
> >
> > 5, How does: Counters work, can someone send me an example of this ?
> >
> > 6, How does REQ_FILEAGE work? (I can find no documentation in
> > check_nt for this command.)
> >
> > 7, How does REQ_INSTANCES work? (I can find no documentation in
> > check_nt for this command.)
> >
> > 8, Should I post to this list ? (should I move this to "my own" list)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > Michael Medin
> >
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> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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