NSClient++ versus NRPE_NT on Windows 2003 Ente rprise Servers

[Ben Conrad]

I'm running nrpe_nt v.8 and have experienced the following:

- Overall, the client works well.

- When I update the plug-ins on the clients, sometimes the nrpe_nt client
does not work correctly after service restart.  I'm thinking this has
something to do with open handles not closing upon service shutdown ?

- I see DrWtsn32.exe on some of the machines, randomly.  May be related to
above issue.

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard DeWath [mailto:dewath at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 9:32 AM
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ versus NRPE_NT on Windows 2003
Enterprise Servers


I have been using the older NSClient on Windows 2K
servers without problems, and some Win2K3 S.E servers
until some updates to the Win2K3 SP1 were added.  I
had installed nrpe_nt 0.7f version and it installed
okay and the simple test worked with the service.  I
rewrote the NSClient service checks into WSH scripts. 
I tested the scripts using the standard C:> cscript
//nologo check_disk.vbs x x x format.  The scripts
work when I run it on the host machine.  When I then
put these in the nrpe.cfg file, the service would
check it once, but then subsequent calls would time
out, etc.  I found that the nrpe_nt service was hung
and I could not stop the service.  I then used task
manager to kill the process.  I finally backed out
nrpe_nt and installed nsclient++ [kudos to the
developer].  This works fine for the basic services
and I have the Nagios monitoring this way.  I now need
to use either NSClient++ nrpe feature to run a script
for check_volume (I need to monitor raw disks mounted
as volumes on folders - the wmi script works fine and
returns the correct results when I run it on the
Win2K3 E.S with SP1).  

Here are the questions:

1.  Has anyone experienced the nrpe_nt service hanging
on Win2K3?  And I see there is a version 0.8 for
nrpe_nt.  Will this fix the problem? 
2.  Will NSClient++ nrpe module work?
3.  Any known WSH issues that would cause the failure?

Thanks,

Richard

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