Using Nagios to Monitor RDP **** SOLVED ****

[Hari Sekhon]

On the topic of this RDP test, I'd love to know if anyone has a better 
test to actually use the protocol, since anything could theoretically 
take port 3389 and this test wouldn't catch it.

I currently also check_tcp as my RDP test but it feels cheap... with VNC 
I actually wrote a plugin to log in to VNC, pull one image to know it's 
all working and then give the OK once it has done that, which seemed 
much better. It would be great if I could have such a thing for RDP too...

-h

Hari Sekhon



Joel Roberts wrote:
>
> Can’t stress the importance of accurate typing enough, I had a typo in 
> the line “service_description”
>
> Working now.
>
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of 
> *Joel Roberts
> *Sent:* Monday, November 19, 2007 10:27 AM
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Using Nagios to Monitor RDP
>
> Want to use Nagios to monitor RDP availability on a Windows 2k3 server 
> (port 3389). Have put the following in my windows.cfg file:
>
> define service{
>
> use generic-service
>
> host_name SERVERNAME
>
> service_description RDP
>
> check_command check_tcp!3389
>
> }
>
> But get an error when I try to verify the config files. Anyone else 
> using check_tcp and see what I’m doing wrong here? I know the host is 
> configured correctly in the file, I’m using it to monitor other 
> services (HTTP and Ping) with no problem.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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