What the best way to monitor Windows?

[Mark Elsen]

> Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 "best" ways to monitor Windows in
> general.
> I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I
> do note that the following though from reading about them -
>
> 1. Checkwmiplus
>
>

  - I switched from NSclient++ to checkwmiplus, because agent less
monitoring gives me a more
flexible nagios environment : - not needing a remote agent makes
migration NAGIOS to another server easier, because
usually because of security reasons, you will be configuring the agent
to allow connections from a particular (NAGIOS)
server only.
                                          - an agent needs to be extra
installed on the windows server; that may seem 'easy' ; but it
isn't if you are in a large IT group where people carry different
heads, and things like 'convincing debates' and 'overal installation
procedures' come into place.

                                          - there are disadvantages
too : checkwmiplus has increased the cpu load on my nagios server
dramatically because of the combined use of wmic and the perl-based
checkwmiplus script. And multiple instances are running
all the time for a large  number of servers. I think I will have to
migrate to a speedier nagios server in the future

                                         - checkwmiplus is still under
very active development which has pros and cons; pros because of the
active interest of the developer, cons because active installation
components are still being changed, making upgrading and followup
on versions a little bit more cumbersome and time intensive , then for
nsclient++ , which ,already, much more stabilized.

M.

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