using Linux for a specific Windows Event

[Joerg Linge]

Hari Sekhon schrieb:
> Michael Dalton wrote:
>> I am using Fedora 6 with nagios 2.9 monitoring multiple windows 2003 
>> servers. I have looked on the message boards for a solution and have 
>> not come up with one.
>>
>> What I would like to do is monitor a specific windows event…..event 
>> id=55….(a disc failure or beginning to fail).
>>
>> Has anyone else done this?
>>
> Nagios is not really the right tool for this. You should work on 
> building a centralized logging infrastructure and have alerting come 
> from there.
> 
> I think Nagios has on occasion been (ab)used like this, and I think I 
> saw something to do this on windows, but I can't remember off the top of 
> my head. Have you tried NagiosExchange.org for some windows event 
> grepping plugin?

Oh yes thats right.

An other possible solution is using evntwin.exe ( part of the microsoft 
snmp agent ) to send snmp traps to nagios. If your familiar with snmp ;-)

Joerg


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