independant plugin

[Michel Cote]

Hi,

Thanks Kevin and Michael.

I'll check out TNTMonitoring but the lua scripting idea is very interesting
to me...

Thanks for all the ideas and I'll work on those.




2011/4/14 Michael Medin <michael at medin.name>

> Hello,
>
> Writing a script in lua which does this would be fairly simple for
> NSClient++.
>
> // Michael Medin
>
>
> 2011-04-13 15:06 Michel Cote skrev:
>
>   Hi list,
>
> First time poster here but I've read a lot of emails so many thanks for
> that.
>
> I don't know how to search for what I'm looking so I'm going to simply ask
> and hope someone has seen or made something that would suit what I need.
>
> So here's the setup:
>
> I currently use Nagios to scan over 700 routers (Cisco 1800 series) on our
> network.  Basically we have a little over 700 stores connected to the
> internet and using a VPN to form a network with our servers.  So currently
> Nagios is pinging those routers to make sure they are up and connected.
>
> Behind those routeurs I have an office computer and several cash
> registers.  As a security precaution those computers are not reachable from
> my linux box and Nagios of course.
>
> There is a very simple system that allows those computers to send files
> back to our servers by secure FTP.
>
> Ok so what I'm looking for is a software that would work in the background
> on those computers and scan for CPU usage, Memory, hard drives and if
> possible temperature.  If certain conditions are met (like shortage of disk
> space) a file would be produced in a specific folder and the our automatic
> FTP system would grab it and transfer that to our servers... From there it's
> a simple matter to transfer it to my linux box and make it availlable to
> Nagios as a passive check.
>
> Has anyone heard of such a software?  I've looked into NsClient++ but I
> have no clue if it's able to save the scans to file if it does it would
> probably be a pretty good tool for what I'm looking for.
>
> Another question I have is about the passive check function.  I understand
> how it works but what I'm not sure of is how to make sure the files that
> would be produced by the remote software will be correctly formated for
> Nagios to understand it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help offered.
>
> Michel Côté
>
>
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