What the best way to monitor Windows?

[Jonny Mosco]

That's exactly what I do.  I have a medium sized environment with 200+
Windows servers to manage.  I have NSclient++ on every windows host, using a
CNAME "monitor" and have a NSC.ini already configured and dropped into
place.  Works like a charm.  With this method, I can also have check_nt, and
check_nrpe if needed.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Mathew Walker <lmw94002 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  With NSClient++, you can easily copy the INI file around.  for NRPE and
> NSClient++ config files I always put in 3 generic names as "allowed hosts"
> ... nagios1.domain.local, nagios2.domain.local, nagios3.domain.local.  Those
> 3 are CNAMEs to my actual nagios systems so I don't have to worry about
> updating config files if I'm testing a new plugin on a test Nagios box,
> migrating, etc.  Only downside is that it does require good DNS and you have
> the normally trivial overhead of that DNS lookup.
>
> --
> Mat W.
>
> > From: mark.elsen at gmail.com
> > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:48:11 +0200
> > To: mrsbonus1 at yahoo.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
> >
> > > 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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