Monitoring Windows Servers with Nagios

[Greg Vickers]

Hi Pavel,

Please respond to the list so everyone can see the goodies :)

Pavel Santos wrote:
> Greg, 
> 
> They're on a trusted network, no encryption needed for the nagios
> related traffic.  

If so, then you have a bit of a free hand to choose whatever method is 
going to be quickest/easiest for you. i.e. if SNMP is already installed 
on the Windows boxes and you know which OIDs to talk to, then you're off.

Or you could drop in NSClient and retrieve the information that way.

It's really up to you.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Greg
> Vickers
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 9:05 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows Servers with Nagios
> 
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> Pavel Santos wrote:
> 
>>Hello list,
>>
>>I'm running Nagios 2.0b4 on FC4.  What is the best way to monitor 
>>Windows Server for Disk, Memory and CPU usage? 
> 
> 
> Well, 'best' is variable depending on your situation/infrastructure:
> 
> Are the servers on a trusted network? i.e. do you need to encrypt the
> information between your Nagios server and the Windows servers?
> 
> Visit www.nagiosexchange.com for any of a number of ways of monitoring 
> the attributes you speak of. I can see SNMP, Cygwin ports, NC_Net, 
> NRPE_NT and NSClient/++.
> 
> SNMP - you will need SNMP installed on your Windows hosts
> Cygwin ports - you will need a communications channel like SSH and the 
> Cygwin .dll on the Windows hosts
> NC_Net - I haven't used it
> NRPE_NT - I haven't used it
> NSClient - client that resides on your Windows hosts
> NSCLient/++ - I haven't used it
> 
> Read and learn and decide which method is best for your 
> security/situation/budget/experience etc etc
> 

-- 
Greg Vickers
Project Manager, IT Security
Information Technology Services
Queensland University of Technology
L12, 126 Margaret St, Brisbane

Phone: (07) 3864 9536
Email: g.vickers at qut.edu.au
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