difference between nrpe-nt and nsclient?

[Joseph A. Petrucci]

I do not have experience with nrpe_nt, but nsclient does everything you
are looking for I have never had any problems with it once I got it set
up it just runs.


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 00:24 -0700, 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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