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

[Russell Adams]

I recall hearing someone else wrote a WMI proxy for this purpose a
while ago, though I don't recall the project.

Perhaps you should compare?

Russell


On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:22:25PM -0400, Mike Conigliaro wrote:
> 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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