PDC plugin

[Hari Sekhon]

Thanks for the suggestion Marc, that is a good idea! I only used dcdiag 
when setting up the domain to check things and then forgot all about it.

The only problem is that is creates a lot of output, I'd have to create 
quite a plugin to test everything and then try and get something 
meaningful in 1 line...

-h

Hari Sekhon



Marc Powell wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon
>> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:26 AM
>> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] PDC plugin
>>
>> I would also be very interested if anyone knows how to do this. I am
>> using 2003 Active Directory. I was thinking about just doing check_tcp
>> again the ldap and kerberos ports but that is a pretty lame test since
>> they are always bound.
>>
>> I think a more specific test like an ldap query and a kerberos request
>> would be better.
>>
>> Anybody got anything more on this?
>>     
>
> Big caveat: I'm not a Windows kind-of-guy but...
>
> We use a program named dcdiag that actively checks the state of our
> domain controllers and send its output to us via e-mail. It performs
> many tests such as connectivity, replication, netlogons, advertising,
> etc, etc etc... If I were trying to do this I'd install ActiveState perl
> and create a simple plugin that called dcdiag and parsed its output
> looking for failures. Run the plugin via NRPENT (or other) and you
> should have interesting results. Now, I'm sure there's a better way to
> parse the output than AS Perl that's native to Windows but I'm just not
> familiar enough to know what it is.
>
> dcdiag from MS TechNet -
> http://207.46.196.114/WindowsServer/en/library/f7396ad6-0baa-4e66-8d18-1
> 7f83c5e4e6c1033.mspx?mfr=true
>
> Try running it with 'dcdiag /s:<domaincontroller> /e'
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
> Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
> opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
> http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
> _______________________________________________
> 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
>
>   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/users/attachments/20070119/d96f5cea/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT
Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your
opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
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