Citrix and Nagios

[Vicky P. Retzke]

We implemented Nagios 1.2 about a year ago and currently monitor about 
130 hosts/500 services in our unix environment.  My boss has been 
trying to convince the manager of the Windows team to begin using 
Nagios to monitor the servers within the Microsoft environment, but 
has, so far, been unsuccessful.  The largest portion of the Windows 
servers are components within the Citrix architecture and, being 
unfamiliar with Citrix, I'm been unable to really demonstrate how 
Nagios could be valuable in monitoring the Citrix environment.  I've 
read what I could find in the users list archives and compiled the 
check_ica_* plugins but can not get permission to even demonstrate any 
of the capabilities of Nagios on the Windows servers.

What I'm hoping to find via this list is just a quick summary of how 
current users are using Nagios to monitor their Citrix implementation.  
Do you just use the existing plugins to monitor the master browser and 
published applications, do you monitor specific services on each 
component, do you do "end-to-end" monitoring (this is what our Windows 
manager is looking for and is currently looking at 3rd party products 
that profess to do that).   Again, I'm not a Citrix/Windows user or 
admin, so I apologize if my question seems vague.

Thank you for any information that might help in my lobbying efforts!

Vicky Retzke
Unix System Administrator
Overnite, A UPS Company


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