SNMP or NSClient

[Russell Adams]

I use both, they each have specific purposes.

The only thing I can't get with SNMP is service states. However, if
you can tie a Service back to an executable, you can monitor them.

NSClient is nice too, and does services.

I use SNMP because I use Cricket to gather performance trend data from
my Windows servers. Nagios is just used for operational status.

Russell


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:13:48PM -0300, Rivanor P. Soares wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Which one to use to check Windows NT/2K states, like CPU load (single or multi-processors machines), Memory load,  Disk space, Service state, Process state, System uptime, File date & time:
> - SNMP or
> - NSClient
> 
> My customer says that prefered to use SNMP on the clients because SNMP is a protocol, in the full meaning of the word, and then, I could start a snmpd on the Nagios Server. But for administrative reasons, I prefer to use NSClient. It's fully integrated with Nagios.
> 
> You all that uses some of this two described above, what do you say? Which one is better?
> 
> I really hope for some answers... comments!
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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