eventhandler - remote script execution

[Steve Shipway]

> I would like to - on an alert, to have nagios execute a script on a 
> remote win32 machine to restart a problematic service.

Here, we do this by using:
1) pNSclient 2.0.1 agent on the server monitors the windows service
2) Nagios has event handler calling a short shellscript that calls
check_nrpe
3) NRPE_nt agent on server catches nrpe request and runs restart script
4) service restarts!

The restart script is something very simple -- just 'net start %1%' -- and
the shellscript at (2) parses the Service Description to obtain the
servicename which is passed to check_nrpe as a parameter.

It means having 2 agents on the server (pnsclient, nrpe_nt) though --
actually 3, since we also have the eventlog-nsca daemon running.  They're
fairly small footprints, though.

We're using it here in pre-production, working fine.

Steve

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