Windows Client...

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se
Tue Jan 25 15:23:00 CET 2005


Emmett Hogan wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
> 
> Well....I have all my Un*x boxen now monitored (along with my networked 
> HP printers...my NT admins LOVE getting emails about "Low 
> Toner"....NOT!) :-)  So, it's ime to move on to the Windoze machines, 
> however I am getting mixed signals.  What is the common method for 
> monitoring Windows machines?  I have seen references to:  nsclient, 
> ns_net, ns_client (maybe the same as nsclient), nrpe_nt, snmp, etc.  I 
> know, like PERL, there are lots of "right ways" to do what I want (basic 
> monitoring of the systems and processes/services), but I want to go with 
> one that is the "norm".  I have seen that there might be memory leakage 
> problems with nsclient (plus it's not currently being maintained)...so 
> what is everyone using now?
> 

NSClient (with any spelling) has been the dominant nagios agent for 
windows for a long time. Since it's not being actively maintained 
anymore we've decided to start testing with NC_Net, which is supposed to 
act as a drop-in replacement for NSClient. So far so good. It seems to 
work beautifully (although it consumes slightly more memory than 
NSClient) on all NT5 based platforms. Support for NT4 is not so good 
though, since .NET framework is required and seldom installed on older 
platforms.

So... we're using NSClient, but moving to NC_Net (mainly due to the fact 
that NC_Net is being maintained). Hopefully others will do the same, so 
more people can contribute to it.

> Thanks,
> Emmett
> 

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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