Monitoring Wimdows machines

[Natxo Asenjo]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 4:08 PM, stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:
> We have a fair sized Nagios installation that currently only monitors UNIX
> machines, and we want to add some Windows clients, primarily XP. We started
> down the road using NSClient++ using the check_nt Nagios plugin, but
> haven't been able to communicate with any XP boxes.  The NSClient++ web
> page suggests using the NRPE method which has us wondering if the check_nt
> method even works.  Has anyone had success with either of these methods and
> if so which?  Perhaps there is another tool that someone can recommend.

nsclient++ works fine with xp. You need to check the ini file and
verifying you are using the correct ports on the xp machines and the
nagios server. Check the xp firewall as well, standard since sp 2 the
xp machines are firewalled (unless you have already disabled that).

-- 
natxo

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