SV: Simple windows client

[Johan Barelds]

Op vrijdag 16 september 2005 01:05, schreef u:
> Right on the spot! I've been thinking about this as well.
Good to hear that i am not the only one..:-)

> There must be many people monitoring Windows hosts?
> Sad but true, that is all that I monitor right now, and it's all done with
> simple NSClient stuff so there is nothing special about that.
>
> It seems to me that the most competent Windows monitor agent today is
> NRPE_NT but I can't say for sure cause I haven't looked into it as deep as
> I need to. NRPE_NT needs some heavy scripts and configuration to do wonders
> as I understand.
Quit true.

> Any good scripts or ideas are welcome.
There are actually some good ones on nagiosexchange.

> One way to accomplish what you're asking for is to collect all stuff
> different people are using and then select the most useful stuff and
> finally get the stuff together in one neat Windows monitor package. This
> can easily be done with something as simple as a batch file.
>
> I can volonteer for the latter if you who reads this can send me your
> scripts and configuration. Just specify what does what and I believe I can
> figure out the rest.
That's also a good idea;
Collect all the stuff there is and put some sort of 
quality/standardisation-check over it and make ou own distro.

The drawback is that it is still some sort of sub-optimalisation of existing 
stuff.
I still miss the straightforward gui, the intuitive, dummy proof 
configuration, the single produced config file which could be distributed 
quit easy etc. which one could achieve if you build the client from scratch.

I suggest we keep it as an second option in case no programmer volunteers for 
building the new client.
Maybe a forward of this thread to the Nagios developers mailinglist will help.

> I will follow this thread with great interest.
You'r the only one so far..:-)
I hope there are some more interested folks.

> Best regards,
> Sebastian Bergstroem
> SWEDEN

Grz. Johan

>
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> Från: Johan Barelds [mailto:mailings at good-it.com]
> Skickat: den 15 september 2005 20:45
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> Ämne: [Nagios-users] Simple windows client
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am using Nagios for a while now and i am a true believer.
> We do have around 200 window servers in our environment which need to be
> monitored and Nagios does the job quit well. Unfortunaly it's rather labour
> and study intensive to get a complete set of windows clients/scripts that
> fullfills ones monitor needs;
>
> Until now i haven't found a windows client which was:
>
> a. an out-of-the-box installation (e.g. msi file) and b. having a very
> simple gui in which all the configuration stuff could be done in a very
> intuitive matter and c. has all the needed monitor functionality in this
> one client (like eventlogs, perfmon counters, disk/cpu/mem usage etc.) and
> d. produced a single conf file which could be distributed quit easy to
> simular windows servers to prevent manual configuration on each server and
> e. has a large installed base so feedback and corrective actions on
> bugs/feature requests is quit good.
>
> Is it an idea to develop such a "general windows client" instead of making
> a lot of smaller programms, scripts by a lot of people, which needs a lot
> of studying/implementing/configuring etc. to get it working?
>
> Unfortunatly i am not a programmer otherwise i would have made it
> myself..:-) But it would be nice if there are some programmers around who
> are interested in starting such a project. I am very curious if i am the
> only one looking at it this way or if there is "a market" for such a new
> windows client.
>
> Please let me know your thoughts...
>
> --
> Kind Regards / Met vriendelijke groet,
> Johan Barelds
>
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