[TriLUG] Another way to monitor Windows using Nagios

[Chris Knowles]

Owen Berry wrote:
> For those who were interested in monitoring Windows from Nagios, another
> way to do this is to use the standard Nagios check_nt plugin on the
> Nagios side, and a service called nsclient (NetSaint client) on the
> Windows side. You can get it at http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/. Even
> though it looks like nsclient is no longer being developed or supported,
> we've had no problems with it so far.
>
> With that installed you can monitor things like CPU load, memory load,
> disk space, service state, process state, system uptime, file date and
> time, and anything Windows monitors via WMI ... i.e. anything you can
> see in the Windows Performance tool (perfmon)! We use this for
> monitoring all kinds of things on our Exchange Server and Blackberry
> Enterprise Server. They both have a tendency to go belly up, so they
> need close attention.
>
> We're almost totally a Unix/Linux house, so it took some time before we
> figured this stuff out, and I can't claim it's the best way to go. But
> let me know if you have any questions about our setup.
>
> Owen
>   
And if you like that, you should try nsclient++ which is a process that
is in (more) active development, and can act as either an NSclient
listener or an NRPE_NT listener.  It has a lot of checks built in, and
seems to work great. 

http://nscplus.medin.name/index.php/Main_Page


CJK