to anyone monitoring windows machines with nagios (wmi, etc.)

[Trevor Warren]

Good stuff mike. Keep up the great work. Am going to have this checked out
and revert back. Hope you will keep adding to the project when you can.

Trevor

On 8/29/06, Mike Conigliaro <conigliaro at getproactivenow.com> wrote:
>
> sorry, documentation is a bit light at this point. =/
>
> your guess is correct.  if you have to monitor a network of windows
> machines, its hard to beat doing it with wmi.  unfortunately, you cant
> query wmi directly from *nix (as far as i know), but you can run an nrpe
> service on one of your windows machines and "proxy" the checks through
> that machine.  you only need the check_nrpe plugin on the *nix side to
> do this.
>
> my project is simply a collection of plugins, plus a framework for
> simplifying plugin development in c# .net.  i started it because i
> couldnt find a good replacement for the official nagios plugins for
> *nix, and i didnt want just a direct win32 port either, because i wanted
> the power of wmi for windows monitoring.
>
> i hope this helps.
>
>
> Trevor Warren wrote:
> > Hello Mike,
> >
> >  You indeed have an interesting project here. Was trying to find
> > documentation towards understanding how it works but couldnt make any
> > progress. Am guessing......,
> >
> >  You configure a service on the nagios box to call the nagiosnt plugin
> over
> > nrpe which can then call any other windows machine using wmi. Is this
> > how it
> > works???.
> >
> >  Thanks and Regards Mike.
> >
> > Trevor
> >
> > On 8/29/06, mike conigliaro <conigliaro at getproactivenow.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> hey guys,
> >>
> >> i recently started a project to simplify windows monitoring with
> >> nagios.  my
> >> goal was to create a comprehensive set of plugins similar to the
> official
> >> nagios
> >> plugins for *nix, but for win32 nrpe daemons.  so far, i have wmi
> plugins
> >> for
> >> monitoring basic performance metrics like cpu, memory, disk, swap,
> >> service
> >> state, etc.  i've also written some basic snmp, tcp, and icmp plugins,
> so
> >> this
> >> project is not at all limited to monitoring windows machines.
> >>
> >> a very nice side effect of this project was ending up with a simple
> >> object
> >> oriented framework for writing future plugins.  this has improved my
> >> plugin
> >> development time immensely.  for example, its now possible for me to
> >> write
> >> a
> >> brand new, fully-functional wmi plugin from start-to-finish in
> >> literally 2
> >> minutes!
> >>
> >> the project page is here:
> >>
> >> http://nagiospluginsnt.getproactivenow.com
> >>
> >> i hope someone out there finds this stuff useful, and im interested in
> >> any
> >> feedback you might have.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mike Conigliaro
> >> ProActive Technologies
> >> conigliaro at getproactivenow.com
> >> 203.239.0440 ext:317
> >> www.getproactivenow.com
> >>
> >>
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