Is Clientless monitoring possible

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sudhakar_B at i2.com wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I have installed nagios on one of the system running redhat. Our network 
> has around 25-30 server incluing windows and other network devices such as 
> switches etc.
> 
> Please let me know if we can monitor the server (Including windows) 
> without installing any client on the remote host.
> 

That depends on your definition of client. Without any sort of program
answering questions at all you won't be able to monitor anything but
network services.

NRPE, SNMP, NSClient, NSClient++, NC.NET, ssh or some other means of
accessing the server is necessary to get disk-usage and other data
that servers do not publicly advertise. It's up to you to pick your
poison.

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