Monitoring multiple windows clients behind a firewall

[Anthony Montibello]

dear Jeff,

how about setting up a VPN tunnel between Nagios and the external network?
then via the VPN you will have access to the communicate to the remote
hosts.

One thing to be carefull of is if the remote host is on a DSL and has a
dynamic IP assigned  by the ISP, instead of a static IP.(in this case
passive checks would most likely be a better solution, unless you use some
other script to keep the remote Address updated in the Nagios
configuration.)

also NC_NEt allows for configuring Passive checks to nagios, these are
configured using  NSCA
(NRPE is used to configure Active checks)

Good luck

tony (author of NC_NEt)




On 7/26/07, Jeff Platter <jplatter at vortexit.net> wrote:
>
>  I have a Nagios server setup at my office running version 3.0a5 on centos
> 4. I have a small client that I would like to monitor their workstations
> from my Nagios server. They have a small network with five windows
> workstations and one network printer behind a Linksys router and dsl
> internet connection. I have been able to setup NSClient++ to work on local
> windows machines for monitoring but I am not sure how to set it up to work
> at a remote site with this sort of configuration. I don't have the  ability
> to setup a linux box at the client site to monitor these machines and report
> back to my main server. Is there any way that I can have one of the windows
> machines act as a NRPE server and have it check the other boxes or have the
> other boxes report back to it and then it report back to my main server? Or
> can I just have all the machines report back directly to my main server?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jeff
>
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