Monitoring Windows servers

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Mon, 22 May 2006, Oliver Marshall wrote:

> I have spent the last week looking for a monitoring solution. I have
> been assessing Nagios, Zabbix, and Servers Alive for Windows.
>
> Servers Alive may seem perfect, though its clearly more expensive than
> the rest. I think it may have an issue monitoring clients servers on
> other domains etc as it lacks some form of remote authentication.
>
> Zabbix I will admit is my preference as it's all web based. It's windows
> agent means that I can get local info and, more importantly, run a
> script on the client server and get the results. However, the
> documentation is truly terrible and the Windows side is even worse. The
> last thing I need is someone to cock-up a monitoring setup and then
> never get informed of any issues.
>
> Nagios is clearly the daddy when it comes to network monitoring, though
> it does require a level of linux knowledge that we just don't have here
> (ssh access to setup the config for starters). I know that there is a
> web based tool for setting up the monitoring config (Nagat or something)
> but that's now not being supported or added to, and it's policy to not
> use out-of-support products. I know there is also a 3rd party Windows
> Agent that can run on the servers and monitor local events, though it
> doesn't have scripting support, and it's not part of the main build, and
> hasn't been updated for sometime.
>
> Does anyone have anything useful I should consider when looking at
> Nagios ? Any other web based config tools that can be used? Any other
> windows agents etc ? Any comments on my opinions so far ?
>

When looking at Nagios and specially the plugins world, there are a couple 
place to look.  There is the main nagios-plugins distribution which covers 
a core set of functionality and there are a host of additional plugins 
that have been contributed and are available via nagios-exchange.
Both have active support on the mailing lists.

For Windows - you have a couple of choices: NSClient/NSClient++/NC_Net and 
NRPE_NT.  NRPE_NT allows you to write Windows scripts and extend the 
pluging capability.  A number for wmi scripts are hosted on 
nagios-exchange.


-- 
-sg


-------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null