passive service checks

[Gabriel Law]

Hi all,
 
So I have been looking at Nagios as a way to monitor remote users
machines, and it looks pretty promising, except I have a few questions.
 
Is there a way to install the plug-ins or something comparable on remote
machines, without installing nagios?  Really what I'm trying to do is
check_ping,
check_http, check_smtp on machines behind firewalls with a minimal of
installation. (Read: I can talk someone through it on the phone).  On
linux it's not so bad, I could hack together some suitable scripts,
but...
 
How do people manage passive service checks on remote windows machines?
Is there a way that qualifies the above?  At this point I am thinking at
best I can maybe use the java system but I don't want to deal with
having to support admin of a jre as well.  Or I could write something
comparable in C, but my C skills are rusty and I'd rather not do that
either.
 
If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it!
 
Thanks!!
-Gabe
 
Gabriel Law 
Storbase Communications 
*:  glaw at storbase.com <mailto:glaw at storbase.com>  
*: 877-693-5800 x222
 
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