independant plugin

[Michel Cote]

Thanks Andre,

I see there's an agent to deploy on the remote computer.  I will certainly
take a look.

I'm still looking for other options as well.

Thanks.

2011/4/13 Michel Cote <ct.michelcote at gmail.com>

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>   2011/4/13 Andre Kruger <Andre.Kruger at trw.com>
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>>   Another option to look at would be check_mk. I am not sure if this tool
>> can save the output of the checks to file, but you can always email the
>> creator of the plugin and ask him. check_mk works exclusively with passive
>> checks.
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>> >>> Michel Cote <ct.michelcote at gmail.com> 2011/04/13 15:06 >>>
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>> Hi list,
>>  First time poster here but I've read a lot of emails so many thanks for
>> that.
>>  I don't know how to search for what I'm looking so I'm going to simply
>> ask and hope someone has seen or made something that would suit what I need.
>>  So here's the setup:
>>  I currently use Nagios to scan over 700 routers (Cisco 1800 series) on
>> our network. Basically we have a little over 700 stores connected to the
>> internet and using a VPN to form a network with our servers. So currently
>> Nagios is pinging those routers to make sure they are up and connected.
>>  Behind those routeurs I have an office computer and several cash
>> registers. As a security precaution those computers are not reachable from
>> my linux box and Nagios of course.
>>  There is a very simple system that allows those computers to send files
>> back to our servers by secure FTP.
>>  Ok so what I'm looking for is a software that would work in the
>> background on those computers and scan for CPU usage, Memory, hard drives
>> and if possible temperature. If certain conditions are met (like shortage of
>> disk space) a file would be produced in a specific folder and the our
>> automatic FTP system would grab it and transfer that to our servers... >From
>> there it's a simple matter to transfer it to my linux box and make it
>> availlable to Nagios as a passive check.
>>  Has anyone heard of such a software? I've looked into NsClient++ but I
>> have no clue if it's able to save the scans to file if it does it would
>> probably be a pretty good tool for what I'm looking for.
>>  Another question I have is about the passive check function. I
>> understand how it works but what I'm not sure of is how to make sure the
>> files that would be produced by the remote software will be correctly
>> formated for Nagios to understand it.
>>  Thanks in advance for any help offered.
>>  Michel Côté
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