Windows Agent - Passive Checks

[Greg Martin]

Tony, IMO,  the network traffic generated by the service checks is 
trivial in the scheme of things.  Also, do you really need to worry 
about ALL the services on your windows box?  If. say you run IIS on the 
server, aren't you most interested in knowing IIS Admin and WWW services 
are running?  Checking all the services may be overkill just as querying 
each from nagios may be.

However, if you still feel the need, you could write a script to check 
the status of all the services locally and use NRPE to call the custom 
script.  Powershell or even Windows batch could probably do this for 
you.  This makes the check active but rolls all the services into one.

\\Greg



Anthony Montibello wrote:
> I was going to add that to NC_Net but if it only reports on trouble 
> then how do you know it has not stalled without freshness checking ?
> �
> �
> On NC_net there is a similar command but it has slightly different 
> requirements,
> 1) you can configure NC_Net to preform different Passive checks, but 
> not setup a NSCA transport.
> 2) Active check NC_NEt using GETALLCHECKS command (via check_nc_net 
> thats compatible with check_nt)
> � This returns All checks OK with all performance data or a list of 
> failed passive check and performance data.
> Thus a single Command in Nagios for any number of Passive checks 
> configured, then only� details when something goes wrong.
> �
> �
> Tony ( author of NC_Net) windows plugin
> �
>
>
> �
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Tony <nagios at aspireinternet.co.uk 
> <mailto:nagios at aspireinternet.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi List
>     �
>     I've used Nagios for a few years now and up to now have only
>     really monitored Linux servers and Network hardware.
>     However I'm now having to monitor Windows servers more and more,
>     which isn't a problem as there are plenty of Windows agents
>     available to monitor Windows servers.
>     �
>     However I was wondering if anyone had come across/written an agent
>     that sits on a Windows server and sends Passive checks to Nagios
>     if say a service stops, no matter what the service is. Rather than
>     having Nagios query the host every x minutes and creating network
>     traffic when there isn't any reason to if all the services Nagios
>     wants to check are up and running.
>     �
>     Just a thought...
>     �
>     Thanks
>     Tony
>
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