Monitoring Windows Servers with Nagios

[Greg Vickers]

Hi Pavel,

Pavel Santos wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I’m running Nagios 2.0b4 on FC4.  What is the best way to monitor 
> Windows Server for Disk, Memory and CPU usage? 

Well, 'best' is variable depending on your situation/infrastructure:

Are the servers on a trusted network? i.e. do you need to encrypt the
information between your Nagios server and the Windows servers?

Visit www.nagiosexchange.com for any of a number of ways of monitoring 
the attributes you speak of. I can see SNMP, Cygwin ports, NC_Net, 
NRPE_NT and NSClient/++.

SNMP - you will need SNMP installed on your Windows hosts
Cygwin ports - you will need a communications channel like SSH and the 
Cygwin .dll on the Windows hosts
NC_Net - I haven't used it
NRPE_NT - I haven't used it
NSClient - client that resides on your Windows hosts
NSCLient/++ - I haven't used it

Read and learn and decide which method is best for your 
security/situation/budget/experience etc etc

-- 
Greg Vickers
Project Manager, IT Security
Information Technology Services
Queensland University of Technology
L12, 126 Margaret St, Brisbane

Phone: (07) 3864 9536
Email: g.vickers at qut.edu.au
IT Security web site: http://www.its.qut.edu.au/itsecurity/

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