NSCA and MS Windows Confusion

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Fri Apr 1 09:52:43 CEST 2005


Anthony Montibello wrote:
> NC_Net can be configured to send passive checks to a NSCA server using
> Xor encryption.  the send_NSCA is implemented inside of NC_Net.
> 

For those curious about what kind of protection xor encryption offers, 
on a scale from 0 to 100, the answer is 0.0001. It's the "Hello world" 
of cryptography.

> NC_Net does require Dot Net Framework 1.1 and this in turn uses WMI
> but it is capable of running most check types, CPU,Memory, Performance
> counters, WMI Query, Event Log, Service and Processes, Disk,...
> 
> Good Luck
> Tony
> 
> 
> On Mar 30, 2005 9:10 PM, Peter Cole <peter.c at data-care.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I've been trying for a few days now to find out the best way to
>>implement send_nsca.exe for our customer's Windows servers that we
>>maintain for them.
>>
>>I've set up a Nagios server here at the office and it's monitoring our
>>internal services etc. fine, but I haven't needed to use send_nsca.exe
>>for this at all.
>>
>>However, for our customers, I really need a secure method for getting
>>passive results from them to our Nagios server here.
>>
>>Send_nsca.exe seems pretty straight forward, but I think I'm missing
>>something for how to get the actual monitoring set up on the Windows
>>servers and to feed the results to send_nsca.
>>
>>I've looked through the distributed monitoring section of the
>>documentation as well as the passive service check section, as well as
>>Google search and the mailing list archives.
>>
>>At this stage, the only feasible way seems to be by using Perl modules.
>>
>>The problem with this is getting Perl onto their servers and whether it
>>will introduce instabilities or issues for them.
>>
>>I've tried the Nagios event log agent written by Steve Shipway but I've
>>found it to be a little unreliable on Windows 2003. Mind you, it could
>>be something I'm doing wrong there too.
>>
>>Does anyone have any further suggestions as to documentation or working
>>examples or anything that I can refer to at all? Or even an application
>>or service that will run and feed the results to send_nsca?
>>
>>Any help greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>-----------------------
>>
>>Peter Cole
>>Network Administration
>>Datacare Pty Ltd
>>Helpdesk:       (07) 3373 1111
>>Fax:            (07) 3373 1199
>>Email:          helpdesk at data-care.com.au
>>
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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