checking windows clients for hung state

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lalita Drolia
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:08 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] checking windows clients for hung state
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to know how we can check for a situation in which we can ping
the
> machine but still not access it, in windows.
> 
> What I mean id that probably the machine is in a hung state and that
is
> why we can ping it but still not access it.
> 
> Please tell me what will be the best check for such a situation on
windows
> clients.

I'd start with how you manually determine that it's hung and work from
there. It's a pretty vague scenario. Does it still respond on TCP ports?
Are services still running? Find an external service on the machine that
isn't responding when the hang occurs and add it as a normal check.
Perhaps running NRPE_NT or nsclient++ on the machine and performing a
normal check would be sufficient. I'd prefer some network based test
myself though if I could get away with it, check_tcp for example.

--
Marc

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