monitor windows remote desktop from linux

[Massimo Balestra]

Thank you Mark.

Unfortunately nothing is written in the event log that can help. The only
error I see is about printer drivers but there are a lot of them and they
normally does not affect the server behavior.

I was hoping somebody would know better than me the RD protocol in order to
send some commands to the port (I have no problem to make my own nagios
plugin) to monitor if it is working or not.

Thank you again.
Massimo

-----Original Message-----
From: Frost, Mark {PBG} [mailto:mark.frost1 at pepsi.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Massimo Balestra; Natxo Asenjo; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] monitor windows remote desktop from linux



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Massimo Balestra [mailto:massimobalestra at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 12:52 PM
>To: 'Natxo Asenjo'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] monitor windows remote desktop from linux
>
>Hi,
>
>I did some googleing for this problem but with no success. Maybe
>somebody in
>this list can help me to figure how to do this check.
>
>My nagios is running on linux and I have two windows servers used for
>remote
>desktop (terminal service).
>
>One of this servers has some problems (we will reinstall it) and
>sometimes
>the remote desktop stops answering and the nobody can login. To tell
the
>truth the whole server hangs but in this moment my concern is the
remote
>desktop.
>
>I already setup a check on the remote desktop port (using check_tcp)
but
>it
>is not enough. The RD port answers to the socket connection but when I
>try
>to connect with the client it hangs. So the port is open but the
service
>is
>frozen.
>
>Is there anybody who knows what to do to monitor the Windows Remote
>Desktop?
>
>
>Thank you in advance
>Massimo

Massimo,

I guess if the port is still listening it wouldn't solve the issue to
monitor the Windows service the provides Remote Desktop (although that
seems like it would be a good idea anyway).

Any chance there's a corresponding message in the Windows Event log
indicating something bad happening with Remote Desktop?  If so, you
could use one of several utilities (of which NSClient++ is one) to
trigger an alert when it sees that event in the Event Log.

Mark


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