New to Nagios - Watching Services

[Kevin Keane]

Try looking into NSClient++ for all kinds of elaborate monitoring 
possibilities. I am using it to check for stopped services, among other 
things.

K-Dawg wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am very new to Nagios but am trying to convince my company that 
> Nagios is the way to go instead of our current monitoring application 
> that we pay a lot for and is VERY basic.  I have a series of items 
> that I need to get Nagios to do so I am excited to be learning it and 
> will probably frequent this list.
>  
> To start with, how do I specify to watch a service in Windows?  For 
> example, I want to watch the Backup Exec remote agent on a series of 
> servers and be paged if for some reason it is not started.  Do I need 
> an add on for this or can I simply specify it in the Windows Cfg file?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Kevin
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