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

[Andreas Ericsson]

Hari Sekhon wrote:
> 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...
> 

rdesktop is fairly well written, afair. It shouldn't be too difficult to
extract the protocol details from that project.

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