Monitoring Windows workstation

[Xavier Mertens]

This sounds excellent!

Ideally, the plugin read a config file with the following info:

- List of services to check (running=OK, not running=CRIT)
- A Nagios server IP address
- A host / service reference 

But how to send the info to the Nagios server? On Unix clients, I use a
simple ssh which echoes a line
in the /nagios/spool/nagios.cmd to inject passive results.

/x

-----Original Message-----
From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com] 
Sent: vendredi 11 janvier 2008 12:03
To: Xavier Mertens
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows workstation

Xavier Mertens wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I'd like some advices on the following case:
>
> A network monitored by Nagios. I'd like to run a script when a 
> workstation boots.
> This script should perform the following actions:
>
> 1. Check if some services are running (antivirus, vnc server) 2. Send 
> the info to Nagios (passive check)
>
> My idea is to define one passive check on a fake host in Nagios named 
> "Workstation_Security".
> All workstations will feed this service with the following info:
> 	- Host name / IP
> 	- Services status (OK, WARN, CRIT)
>
> What's the best way to achieve this? In the user profile? How to send 
> the information to Nagios? What are your experience with such setup?
>
>
> /x
This is a very good idea.

I have written a plugin for windows which does check the status of all
services that are set to automatic startup that are not running (it can take
exclusions too).

This is similar to what you have asked for but not exactly the same.

In fact, I had the idea you are talking about a while ago and haven't gotten
round to writing the plugin for it yet.

If you can wait a couple of days, I'm sure to release this as I can base it
off the previous mentioned automatic services plugin (which incidentally is
located here if you want it
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Check_Plugins.21.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_vi
ew]=1183).

If you have any feature requests for the new multiple services plugin, let
me have them now.

My ideas on this:

- Take a list of hosts on the command line or from a file.
- Define a list of services on command line (or from a file, see next point)
- Possibly take a list of hosts and a list of services on each host, or
services global to all hosts
- All services to be defined with either short or long names (above plugin
already has this feature)
- Take arguments in /windows and --unix style plus short args like -u for
--unix.

Other things to note:
- independent of any remote execution method, can be used pretty much
anywhere anyhow.
- native to windows to run on all modern windows systems

Let me know if you have anything to add to this list and I will incorporate
it.

Thanks

-h

--
Hari Sekhon



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