Checking Windows Backup (ntbackup)

[gtj at addicks.org]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:06:13 +0000, "Joseph L. Casale"
<jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>>I've had a look around and I can't see a plugin for checking if a
standard
>>windows backup (using ntbackup) has been successful or not. A
requirement
>>has come up for me to monitor this on a Win XP based host. Am I missing
>>something, or does someone have a plugin that will do this?
> 
> I just finished revamping this very process. I used to use nsca but I
> wanted to
> use a better approach that was easier to maintain and didn't have
unneeded
> deps
> on my Nagios server.
> 
> At the start of my script, I bring a passive check into a warning state
> with an
> snmp trap, at the end of my script, I check exit codes and now send an
> snmp trap
> based on this code as to whether or not it failed or passed.


How are you checking the exit code?

Thanks,

Glynne



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