difference between nrpe-nt and nsclient?

Peter Koinange peter.koinange at swiftkenya.com
Mon Nov 14 08:48:03 CET 2005


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On Monday 14 November 2005 10:24, Cam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to monitor some windows boxen (primarily win 2003 i think), for
> the standard stuff (disk space, cpu, blah), and more importantly to
> make sure a certain process is running at all times (it's not a
> service, just a process).  I have no problem doing this sort of thing
> on *nix, but i'm not quite so familiar w/ the wild world of windows.
> I did a quick google search and came across two different beasts that
> both look like they could do the job quite well: nsclient, and
> nrpe_nt.  Now the question is... what are the differences between the
> two?  I understand that nrpe_nt is mostly just a port of the standard
> nrpe (which i have read about, but have not yet had the occasion to
> use), whereas nsclient appears to be written from the ground up (and
> apparently more dated?).  I was just wondering if people w/ experience
> could tell me what (or hasn't) worked for them, and whether or not one
> of these is the more "standard" approach.
>
> thanks,
> Cameron Matheson
>
>
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