effective use of NSClient++ Eventlog management

[keshav murthy]

Thanks Kevin/Mat/Jel and Ron.

I will try them and take which one suits best.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Mathew Walker <lmw94002 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I use:
> http://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins/Operating-Systems/Windows/NagEventLog
>
> It works pretty good, and you can set it up to alert for specific errors or
> look for all and filter out fluff ones.  I even went to far as to figure out
> the registry settings and push updates for the eventIDs to filter via GPO.
> Maybe not as glamourous, but it worked pretty good in our environment.
>
> --
> Mat W. - http://www.techadre.com
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> From: subscription at kkeane.com
>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:29:54 -0700
>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] effective use of NSClient++ Eventlog management
>
>  I wrote my own event log management plugin because I didn’t find one that
> I liked. You can download it as part of the Sourceforge tntnagiosplugins
> project. It should work with NSClient++ (although admittedly I am not
> testing against that).
>
>
>
> It reports critical and warning events on the specified host (it will
> exclude a number of events that are known to be harmless, for instance DCOM
> 10009 and about a dozen or so other ones).
>
>
>
> The “top ten events” seems like interesting functionality, but doesn’t
> really fit very well into the Nagios philosophy. Nagios can ultimately only
> distinguish between OK, WARNING, CRITICAL. There are better tools for
> statistical analysis.
>
>
>
> The collection of plugins also contains a separate plugin that reports on
> login errors.
>
>
>
> *From:* Ron Wilson [mailto:ron at tvnz.co.nz]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 21, 2010 3:52 PM
> *To:* Nagios Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] effective use of NSClient++ Eventlog
> management
>
>
>
> I have tried several times over the past year but never managed to get the
> check_eventlog working. If you have any success do tell us about it
>
>
>
> *From:* keshav murthy [mailto:nkeshav12 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:07 p.m.
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] effective use of NSClient++ Eventlog management
>
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> We are moving from pnsclient to NSclient++ for all our windows client. We
> would like to use the Event log management available with NSClient++.
>
>
>
> We would like to do the following (if it is feasible)
>
>
>
> Top Ten events in all the clients overall.
>
> Critical Event IDs on any server: We are looking for only the critical
> event ID's (like a AD account lockout event ID etc) to be captured and
> reported to the nagios server.
>
>
>
> Have anybody started using this eventlog management effectively and what
> are your way of putting it in place.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Keshav
>
> ==========================================================
>
> For more information on the Television New Zealand Group, visit us
>
> online at tvnz.co.nz
>
> ==========================================================
>
> CAUTION:  This e-mail and any attachment(s) contain information that
>
> is intended to be read only by the named recipient(s).  This information
>
> is not to be used or stored by any other person and/or organisation.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with
> Hotmail. Get busy.<http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the
> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share
> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details:
> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l?
> http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/
> _______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when
> reporting any issue.
> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/users/attachments/20100727/279bc109/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the
Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share 
of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details:
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l?
http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null