checking windows services remotely

[Neil]

This for sure will work but systems are behind a firewall wherein only port 
137-139 or 445 is open. And also, this approach will not work for other 
services that's not bound to a TCP or UDP port. 

Thanks! 

Dan Stromberg writes: 

> 
> You could always just nmap the system to see what ports are open, and
> then set up various check_tcp's and check_udp's for the ones that are
> important.  nmap defaults to tcp mode, but I believe -sU will do a UDP
> scan. 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 11:47, Neil wrote:
>> Sorry guys, I should have been much more detailed. Installation of an agent 
>> is not an option. I know nsclient and been using it to get performance 
>> counters. It's cool though but there are company policies here that prevents 
>> us from installing agents on production systems.  
>> 
>> Thanks!  
>> 
>> Hendrik B writes:  
>> 
>> > Guten Tag Neil, 
>> > 
>> > am Dienstag, 12. Oktober 2004 um 17:10 schrieben Sie: 
>> > 
>> > N> Hey guys,  
>> > 
>> > N> Has anyone created a check that verifies a remote Windows' services such as
>> > N> Cluster Service, W3SVC or any service on a remote machine using 
>> > N> username/password check? I'm sure that this could utilize the samba
>> > N> libraries. NRPE agent is not an option now.  
>> > 
>> > N> Thanks guys,  
>> > 
>> > N> neil 
>> > 
>> > 
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>> > Hi, 
>> > 
>> > if NRPE is no option for you try NSClient. 
>> > 
>> > A simple Client for the Windows-Box and a Nagios Plugin for: 
>> > 
>> > check_nt (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.7
>> > The nagios plugins come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute
>> > copies of the plugins under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>> > For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
>> > Copyright (c) 2000 Yves Rubin (rubiyz at yahoo.com) 
>> > 
>> > This plugin attempts to contact the NSClient service running on a Windows NT/2000/XP server to
>> > gather the requested system information. 
>> > 
>> > Usage: check_nt -H host -v variable [-p port] [-w warning] [-c critical] [-l params] [-d SHOWALL] [-t timeout] 
>> > 
>> > Options:
>> > -H, --hostname=HOST
>> >    Name of the host to check
>> > -p, --port=INTEGER
>> >    Optional port number (default: 1248)
>> > -s <password>
>> >    Password needed for the request
>> > -v, --variable=STRING
>> >    Variable to check.  Valid variables are:
>> >       CLIENTVERSION = Get the NSClient version
>> >       CPULOAD = Average CPU load on last x minutes. Request a -l parameter with the following syntax:
>> >         -l <minutes range>,<warning threshold>,<critical threshold>. <minute range> should be less than 24*60.
>> >         Thresholds are percentage and up to 10 requests can be done in one shot. ie: -l 60,90,95,120,90,95
>> >       UPTIME = Get the uptime of the machine. No specific parameters. No warning or critical threshold
>> >       USEDDISKSPACE = Size and percentage of disk use. Request a -l parameter containing the drive letter only.
>> >                       Warning and critical thresholds can be specified with -w and -c.
>> >       MEMUSE = Memory use. Warning and critical thresholds can be specified with -w and -c.
>> >       SERVICESTATE = Check the state of one or several services. Request a -l parameters with the following syntax:
>> >         -l <service1>,<service2>,<service3>,... You can specify -d SHOWALL in case you want to see working services
>> >         in the returned string.
>> >       PROCSTATE = Check if one or several process are running. Same syntax as SERVICESTATE.
>> >       COUNTER = Check any performance counter of Windows NT/2000. Request a -l parameters with the following syntax:
>> >         -l "\\<performance object>\\counter","<description>"  The <description> parameter is optional and
>> >         is given to a printf output command which require a float parameters. Some examples:
>> >           "Paging file usage is %.2f %%" or "%.f %% paging file used."
>> >  -w, --warning=INTEGER
>> >    Threshold which will result in a warning status
>> >  -c, --critical=INTEGER
>> >    Threshold which will result in a critical status
>> >  -t, --timeout=INTEGER
>> >    Seconds before connection attempt times out (default: 10)
>> > -h, --help
>> >    Print this help screen
>> > -V, --version
>> >    Print version information 
>> > 
>> > Notes:
>> >  - The NSClient service should be running on the server to get any information.
>> >  - Critical thresholds should be lower than warning thresholds 
>> > 
>> >  
>> > 
>> > -- 
>> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>> > Hendrik B
>> > mailto:b00mer at gmx.net 
>> > 
>> > 
>>   
>> 
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> Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg at dcs.nac.uci.edu> 
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