NRPE_NT vs. NSClient

[Pete Dewell]

I use both nsclient and nrpe_nt.
I monitor about 80 Windows machines for various (mostly minor) checks, 
services running, programs running, disk space etc etc.

nsclient is great for the standard stuff that you would need to monitor, 
like the above. However, if you want to do rather more interesting 
tests, then nrpe_nt would be a better tool, as you can write your own 
tests (how's your batch file scripting?)
Only problem I have found with nsclient (I use V201) is that on some w2k 
and most win 2003 machines, the default port (1248) ends up in use by 
something else, which results in the client not allowing the Nagios 
server to connect to the machine. There is a message in the application 
event log - forget what it is. When this happens, you can't stop the 
nsclient service, and all you can do is change the port number via 
regedit, and then reboot the machine. Yuck. Changing the port used by 
nsclient to a different one (I use 2323) resolves the problem.

I monitor a few NT4 machines, where services, for some reason, just stop 
working. In these cases, I use nrpe_nt as an event handler to restart 
the services. So far, it's worked fine for me. I also use it on a couple 
of w2k machines. I haven't tried it on any windows2003 boxes yet.

Pete Dewell

Cook, Garry wrote:

> I've been using NSClient for quite some time to monitor a few Windows
> servers. In the near future, I will have a need to add about 100 more
> Windows servers to the current four that I now monitor.
> I'm wondering if NRPE_NT might have any features that would be
> beneficial to my environment, so I'm looking over the docs now.
> However, I thought that maybe I should ask the list, to get some quick
> feedback from people that have used both add-ons.
> 
> Pros/Cons to NSClient and NRPE_NT?
> 
> Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
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> 
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