Need help with code...

[Anthony Montibello]

hi Rob,

Since your at a university why don't you get one of the Comp Science
Teachers or students to assist you in finding a solution.


1) you need a program that can detect some kind of external port
change - wether it be loopback or whatever you do to interface with
the alarm system..(this is the Hard part - you may want to view the
temperature probe
2) this program should then interact with NS_Client or some other
nagios interface.
You cannot easily interact directly but here are some ways that you
can interact.

NC_Net and some of the newer windows plugins like nsclient++ allow for
more options on how to monitor a windows server.

most have Fileage and the newer plugins also have Event log checks.
NC_Net also allows for query of WMI, 

once you have the program that can detect the alarm, you can have the
program either
A) write to a file and use a nagios FILEAGE check and if file was
modified send a Critical.
b) write to the event log then use a nagios Event log check.  When the
event is seen it sends a alert.
C) there may be some way to check the serial via WMI script or
query??? NC_Net can query but cannot do anything else to WMI (this was
by design)
d) have the program that detects the alarm send a passive check via
NSCA win32. (this is proboly the best to avoid temperary files or
other configuration problems)



On 4/18/05, Rob Wirtz <rob at ksu.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestions Paul.  As this is server hardware, it has no
> game port or sound interface.  I'll keep looking for alternative methods.  I
> apologize for any "attitude" I may have inadvertently projected, it was
> certainly not my intent.
> 
> Rob Wirtz CNE, MCSE
> Senior Network Systems Analyst
> Computing and Network Services
> Kansas State University
> 2323 Anderson #146
> Manhattan, KS  66502
> 785-532-3346
> rob at ksu.edu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Paul L. Allen
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:30 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Need help with code...
> 
> Rob Wirtz writes:
> 
> > Do you have any alternative suggestions?  I'm not trying to sound too
> > critical here, but I don't really see any helpful suggestions in your
> > reply.
> 
> I suggested using CTS or the fire button on the games port, either of
> which are likely to reduce the complexity of the software you need.
> 
> > The basic idea is that a relay connected to the alarm system will somehow
> > interact with a PC running NS_Client.  Does anyone have suggestions/code
> > to make this happen.  I really don't care what the method is.  CTS/DTR,
> > TX/RX, whatever.
> 
> I am sure there are people who would be delighted to quote you a
> price for the custom software you want.  Given the number of replies
> you've had so far, I doubt anyone is going to do it for free.  Oh, and
> thanks to your attitude, I doubt there are many people who would be willing
> to do it for money, either.  I certainly wouldn't.
> 
> > I wanted to avoid using PERL and stick with something that I could
> > compile and EXE from C++ or Vbasic code.  I didn't want to have
> > to load the whole PERL language to run a short script.
> 
> Your choice as to which language you pay somebody to write your custom
> code in.  If I were doing it I'd go with perl because it would be a lot
> quicker to write and the memory footprint is likely to be a good deal
> smaller since perl itself is under 1M while any Windows exe compiled
> from C++ or Vbasic is going to pull in a whole load of unnecessary cruft
> that will take it over 2M.
> 
> --
> Paul Allen
> Softflare Support
> 
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