<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Check out TNT Monitoring ( <a href="http://www.tntmonitoring.com">http://www.tntmonitoring.com</a> ); I wrote it specifically for situations such as yours (and mine – lots of Windows servers across the Internet).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The check results are submitted by standard HTTPS to a URL on your Nagios server.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Kevin Keane<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The NetTech<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(North County Tech Center, LLC dba The NetTech)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>760-721-8339<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.4nettech.com">http://www.4nettech.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Michel Cote [mailto:ct.michelcote@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] independant plugin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi list,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>First time poster here but I've read a lot of emails so many thanks for that.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So here's the setup:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>There is a very simple system that allows those computers to send files back to our servers by secure FTP.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for any help offered.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Michel Côté<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>