New to Nagios - Watching Services

[Marc Powell]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 8:54 AM, K-Dawg 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.

Welcome!

> 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?

I think I can speak for most of us in recommending that you read the  
documentation at least once. It's very thorough and covers theory of  
operation and most common questions and configurations. The QuickStart  
section addresses this particular question at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html 
.

--
Marc


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