to anyone monitoring windows machines with nagios (wmi, etc.)

[Mike Conigliaro]

sorry, documentation is a bit light at this point. =/

your guess is correct.  if you have to monitor a network of windows 
machines, its hard to beat doing it with wmi.  unfortunately, you cant 
query wmi directly from *nix (as far as i know), but you can run an nrpe 
service on one of your windows machines and "proxy" the checks through 
that machine.  you only need the check_nrpe plugin on the *nix side to 
do this.

my project is simply a collection of plugins, plus a framework for 
simplifying plugin development in c# .net.  i started it because i 
couldnt find a good replacement for the official nagios plugins for 
*nix, and i didnt want just a direct win32 port either, because i wanted 
the power of wmi for windows monitoring.

i hope this helps.


Trevor Warren wrote:
> Hello Mike,
> 
>  You indeed have an interesting project here. Was trying to find
> documentation towards understanding how it works but couldnt make any
> progress. Am guessing......,
> 
>  You configure a service on the nagios box to call the nagiosnt plugin over
> nrpe which can then call any other windows machine using wmi. Is this 
> how it
> works???.
> 
>  Thanks and Regards Mike.
> 
> Trevor
> 
> On 8/29/06, mike conigliaro <conigliaro at getproactivenow.com> wrote:
>>
>> hey guys,
>>
>> i recently started a project to simplify windows monitoring with
>> nagios.  my
>> goal was to create a comprehensive set of plugins similar to the official
>> nagios
>> plugins for *nix, but for win32 nrpe daemons.  so far, i have wmi plugins
>> for
>> monitoring basic performance metrics like cpu, memory, disk, swap, 
>> service
>> state, etc.  i've also written some basic snmp, tcp, and icmp plugins, so
>> this
>> project is not at all limited to monitoring windows machines.
>>
>> a very nice side effect of this project was ending up with a simple 
>> object
>> oriented framework for writing future plugins.  this has improved my
>> plugin
>> development time immensely.  for example, its now possible for me to 
>> write
>> a
>> brand new, fully-functional wmi plugin from start-to-finish in 
>> literally 2
>> minutes!
>>
>> the project page is here:
>>
>> http://nagiospluginsnt.getproactivenow.com
>>
>> i hope someone out there finds this stuff useful, and im interested in 
>> any
>> feedback you might have.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Conigliaro
>> ProActive Technologies
>> conigliaro at getproactivenow.com
>> 203.239.0440 ext:317
>> www.getproactivenow.com
>>
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