NSClient 0.0.1 RC1

[Andreas Ericsson]

Michael Medin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I have just released RC1 of NSClient++ it has basic functionality and
> supports most of the basic commands of NSClient. (only REQ_COUNTER,
> REQ_FILEAGE and REQ_INSTANCES are missing).
> 

Nice work. I'll get to testing immediately. On which versions of MS 
os'es should this theoretically work?

> It can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus/
> 
> Simple installation instructions:
> 
> Unzip to a directory of you choice, run "NSClient++ /install" to
> install the service definition and then "NSCLient++ /start" to start
> the service. If you rather not run it as a service run "NSClient++
> /test" to start the program interactively. A few important things: be
> sure to comment out either ConsoleLogger.dll or FileLogger.dll
> depending on if you run it interactively or as a service. Also note
> that this by default binds to port 1234 (as to not collide with
> NSClient).

Perhaps it would be prudent to get rid of the ancient MS Exchange 
problem and have it bind 12248 or some other address in the "free fire 
zone" (non-standard, non-common) by default instead?

> Check out readme.txt for details on how to install /
> configure and use the application.
> 
> As for resources/leaks I ran this for about 24 hours on a few of our
> servers during yesterday polling about 5 times each second without
> much impact (used 2.2Mb memory and pretty much no CPU, according to
> ProcExp www.sysinternals.com)
> 
> 
> 
> **IMPORTANT**
> 
> Don't go changing all you NSClient's as of yet, this is a work in
> progress, settings/options/things might change and you will have to
> do it all over again, but please feel free to test this on all your
> installations :)
> 
> 
> 
> A few things I am interested in (read feedback):
> 
> 1, Does it work on <insert strange hardware/software/setup here>?
> 
> 2, Does it work as expected?
> 
> 3, Settings is not 100% compatible with NSClient, should I add an
> option "settings=read from nsclient" or similar to make it a *drop
> in* replacement?
> 
> To me this feels a bit excessive as you need to "install" the exe
> file anyway so you might as well fix your own custom config and
> install that as well.
> 
> 4, Installation procedure? (I don't really know at all how people
> generally installs these kinds of things so feedback here would be
> interesting)
> 
> 5, How does: Counters work, can someone send me an example of this ?
> 
> 6, How does REQ_FILEAGE work? (I can find no documentation in
> check_nt for this command.)
> 
> 7, How does REQ_INSTANCES work? (I can find no documentation in
> check_nt for this command.)
> 
> 8, Should I post to this list ? (should I move this to "my own" list)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Medin
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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