monitor windows remote desktop from linux

[John Andrunas]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Massimo
Balestra<massimobalestra at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you John,
>
> I thought that, but rdesktop needs an xwindows server and, also, I did not
> find any command in rdesktop that make a conencion and exits immediately.
>
> Do you know how I could do this?
>
> Thank you
> Massimo
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Andrunas [mailto:john at andrunas.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:28 AM
> To: Massimo Balestra
> Cc: Frost, Mark {PBG}; Natxo Asenjo; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitor windows remote desktop from linux
>
> It seems like you ought to be able to create a check that actually
> connects to rdp, not that this is an ideal solution.
>
> rdesktop -u <username> -d <domain> -p <password>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Massimo
> Balestra<massimobalestra at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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you can use -s and run a specific application (a batch file or
something) to log you out, but yes you would need X.

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