Hi all,

We use Nagios to monitor our servers etc here.

I have been tasked with looking at how Nagios
could be applied to monitor our Lab
computers. We have ~900 PCs across four
campuses. We would like to show our students
where available computers are.

I'm thinking of compiling nsca so that the
client will run on win32 (labs run XP) and
submitting checks on startup (OK state, PC
available), logon (CRITICAL state, PC not
available) and reboot (UNKNOWN state, PC
rebooting). So we would have our raw data in
the nagios log files.

Then i'd write something to pull the data
about Lab PCs in an OK/(CRITICAL|WARNING)
state and show students something like this:

A block Lab:
10 PCs available
35 PCs unavailable

Can anyone comment on the feasibility/reality
of this, since IANACP (I Am Not A C
Programmer, I love learning curves), or
has/would anyone approached this situation in
a different manner?

Or am I barking mad?

Thanks,
Greg

p.s. potential proposal in the project is to
integrate with Sylabus+ so that we can show
the students which labs are booked and
when.... (cue maniac laughter)


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