nsclient, is it still an acceptable method to monitor nt

[Anthony Montibello]

Thanks Andreas, Good Description of the differences,

However, you forgot to mension NC_Net also supports NSCA for Passive checks.

So in my eyes, each flavor of the current Windows Plugins offers a different
set of enhancements,

NSCLIENT++ has NRPE and some other enhancements
NC_NET has NSCA, event logs, RunScripts,WMI,... (And supports Whitespace in
Service names)
OpMon - may be introducing NRPE soon? and hopefully other enhancements

All three are compatible to the Check_NT from the official Plugins and
should return similar results.

Tony (Author of NC_Net)

On Nov 9, 2007 5:35 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:

>  Giles Coochey wrote:
> >> Steve Ensley wrote:
> >>> I'm upgrading another departments Nagios 1.3 instance to Nagios 2.9.
> >> they
> >>> are using nsclient to get some info from some nt servers.  Most of
> > my
> >> Nagios
> >>> experience has been monitoring Unix servers.
> >>>
> >>> The website at http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/ for nsclient doesnt
> > seem to
> >>> have been touched since 2004.  Is it still a viable method to
> > monitor nt
> >>> servers or is there somthing else I should be looking into to
> > replace
> >> it.
> >> Try NSClient++ instead. It's at sourceforge somewhere, and is quite a
> > lot
> >> fresher. NSClient might work, but it's getting rather ancient.
> >>
> >
> > I had this same quandary sometime back.
> >
> > Options were
> >
> > NSClient (seems too old, not being developed)
> > NSClient++ (presumably enhanced in some way)
> > OpServices version of NSClient (still being developed)
> > NC_Net (still being developed)
> >
> > In the end I simply went with NC_Net and it appears to work for us just
> > fine, and I often see the author on this list, which tells me that he's
> > still involved with Nagios in some way.
> >
> > It would be nice if all the different people who independently developed
> > all the different versions 'unforked' their efforts though :-), it would
> > make the decision on which one to use much easier, by having a lack of
> > choice!!
>
> They aren't really forks. OpServices have simply taken over maintainership
> of NSClient (more or less, as the original author seems to have vanished).
> NSClient++ is a re-implementation in C++, with support for NRPE style
> script
> based checks as well. NC_Net does things through dot net stuff and some m$
> voodoo, but incorporates the NSClient mode of address since that's what
> the
> official plugins support.
>
> So it's really three different agents.
>
> --
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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