Check remote MS service status

[Roy Kidder]

As many of you are, I'm finding myself monitoring a variety of remote
platforms, using a variety of different methods (check_*, snmp, nrpe,
home-grown scripts, etc).

For *nix machines, nrpe works well with a shell or perl script on the
remote box. But for Microsoft, which doesn't have a decent scripting
ability (natively), I'm wondering what many of you use? Do you use batch
files? Do you install perl on all these boxes? Do you do something else?

My main interest is checking if a remote service is running (one that is
not network-reachable). Anyone ever heard of a perl script I can run on my
Linux box to ask the NT box via RPC if a service is running? Or is nrpe
the way to go?

Thanks in advance,
Roy



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