NSCLIENT

[Kevin Keane]

Hi Martyn,

The client itself actually is quite stable; I have it running on several 
of my customer's servers for a few months now - maybe two years if you 
count the old versions. It is a fairly small piece of software written 
in C++ (the original version was written in VBS) and have yet to see it 
crash or cause any problems. The main value of the client - aside from 
my own innovation of using HTTPS to submit the passive check results - 
is that it packages quite a few third-party plugins, including 
NSClient++, and their configurations into a single installer package.

What isn't stable about it is the exact specification, behavior and 
which plugins get packaged and how they are configured; I expect that 
there will be ongoing changes. The interface between the TNTMonitoring 
client and Nagios should be fairly stable - it is simply the standard 
NSCA protocol, but running over HTTPS PUT requests.

On the receiving end, a simple PHP script accepts the results and puts 
it to the Nagios command file. The source code for TNTMonitoring 
contains an older version of that script; I should really be updating that.

Also the documentation is really somewhat insufficient.

The current installer will ask a number of questions before installing 
everything. One of the improvements I'm working on is to come up with a 
"quiet" version that simply installs without asking any questions - 
basically, what you've been asking for.

Martyn wrote:
> Thanks very much for the reply.
> I will also take a look at your client too, how stable is it at present?
>
> Cheers 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Keane [mailto:subscription at kkeane.com] 
> Sent: 02 March 2009 23:37
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSCLIENT
>
> You don't have to purchase one. If you want to do the editing manually, use
> Microsoft's Orca. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905
>
> Or if you want to automate it, look into MakeMSI. 
> http://dennisbareis.com/makemsi.htm This scripting language is a bit quirky,
> but it works.
>
> That said, I'm currently working on a complete Nagios client including
> install package that may do just about the same thing (and a few more
> things). You can already download it from Sourceforge, although the "burn
> the server IP address into the MSI" functionality isn't implemented yet. One
> thing I did differently from NSClient is that I am using HTTPS to submit the
> results (an older version also supported SSH, but I have not re-implemented
> that in the latest version). That lets me avoid firewall issues.
>
> It is based on NSClient++ with quite a few enhancements.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/tntmonitoring/
>
> Martyn wrote:
>   
>> Can anybody recommend an MSI editor, I would like to add the IP 
>> address of the server before I send the client MSI out, if I have to 
>> purchase one I do not mind.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Martyn
>>
>>     
>
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