New to Nagios - Watching Services

[K-Dawg]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, K-Dawg <kdawg44 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am very new to Nagios but am trying to convince my company that Nagios is
> the way to go instead of our current monitoring application that we pay a
> lot for and is VERY basic.  I have a series of items that I need to get
> Nagios to do so I am excited to be learning it and will probably frequent
> this list.
>
> To start with, how do I specify to watch a service in Windows?  For
> example, I want to watch the Backup Exec remote agent on a series of servers
> and be paged if for some reason it is not started.  Do I need an add on for
> this or can I simply specify it in the Windows Cfg file?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kevin
>

Please disregard, I just stumbled onto the *SERVICESTATE *definition so I
will play with that.

Thanks.

Kevin
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