<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 "best" ways to monitor Windows in general.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div>I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I do note that the following though from reading about them -<br><div><br></div><div><span>1. Checkwmiplus</span></div><ul class=""><li><span class="tab">Looks like I don't need to install anything on my Windows servers (a nice advantage). <br></span></li><li><span class="tab">Has lots of checks available. <br></span></li><li><span class="tab">Looks like it will be the easiest of the 3 to get started with (yet to be proven)</span></li><li><span class="tab">Requires the linux version of wmic (doesn't look too hard to get going)</span></li><li><span class="tab">The newest of the methods<br></span></li></ul> <div><span>2. nsclient++</span></div><ul class=""><li><span class="tab">Has been around a while (maybe the longest of the three methods), possibly making it the most proven method.<br></span></li><li><span class="tab">Needs an agent installed on Windows. <br></span></li><li><span class="tab">Has lots of checks available.</span></li><li><span class="tab">Checks have to be configured in 2 places (Nagios and the Windows host).</span></li><li><span class="tab">Can possibly do a little bit more than checkwmiplus since it has an agent installed<br></span></li></ul> <div><span>3. check_mk</span></div><ul><li><span>Needs an agent installed on Windows</span></li><li><span>Needs configuration installed on Windows (can't quite work that one out yet)</span></li><li><span>Seems to have some magic auto-check creation (sounds good, but what if I don't want to check everything it finds - yet to be worked out)</span></li><li><span>Looks like this one will be the most work/complexity to get started with</span></li><li><span>Looks like it will perform the best for large installations, but for smaller installations it probably does not matter. This looks like a trade-off between complexity and performance. I wonder how many hosts/services you need to make it worth while?</span></li><li><span>There looked like a bit of an ugly config where you have to manually run some command (</span>lodctr /s:counters.ini) to get some checks to work? Yuk!</li><li><span>Does some magic with my Nagios config. Do I really want some script playing around with my config? Might limit me in the future with upgrades etc</span> as Check_mk will have to support whatever version of Nagios I use.<b><br></b></li></ul><div><span><br></span></div> <div>Hey, if I've got any of this wrong please correct me<br> </div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Toonz IT <it.toonz@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Nagios Users List <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Sandra Bonus <mrsbonus1@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 4 August 2011 9:08 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?<br></font><br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv69571906"><br>NSClient++ works fine us too.... <br><br>with custom commands like these you can monitor disk space usages also....which was one of the main requirements for us!<br><br>define service{<br> use generic-service<br> host_name srv_storage-01<br> service_description Disk Space F Drive<br> check_command check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l f -w 80 -c 90<br> }<br><br>You get a warming alert at 80% disk full and a critical alert 90%<br> <br>regards<br>Ananth.<br><br><br><div class="yiv69571906gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Rai Ricafrente <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:maillist@ricafrente.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:maillist@ricafrente.com">maillist@ricafrente.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="yiv69571906gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><div class="yiv69571906gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv69571906gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine.<br> Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers.<br> <br> There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing this?<br> <br> We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL.<br> <br> Thanks<br> <br></blockquote></div><br></div>NSClient++ worked fine for us. <br> <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA<br> The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts.<br> Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies.<br> Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. 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