Monitoring Windows Servers with Nagios

[Harper Mann]

I've used nc_net.  It works well and seems more stable than nsclient.  
It also gives WMI objects if you compile up the check_nt version from 
nc_net.

It also works fine with check_nt from nagiosplug. 

Good luck,

- Harper

Greg Vickers wrote:

> Hi Pavel,
>
> Please respond to the list so everyone can see the goodies :)
>
> Pavel Santos wrote:
>
>> Greg,
>> They're on a trusted network, no encryption needed for the nagios
>> related traffic.  
>
>
> If so, then you have a bit of a free hand to choose whatever method is 
> going to be quickest/easiest for you. i.e. if SNMP is already 
> installed on the Windows boxes and you know which OIDs to talk to, 
> then you're off.
>
> Or you could drop in NSClient and retrieve the information that way.
>
> It's really up to you.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Greg
>> Vickers
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:05 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows Servers with Nagios
>>
>> 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
>>
>



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