<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Thanks for the suggestion Marc, that is a good idea! I only used dcdiag when setting up the domain to check things and then forgot all about it. The only problem is that is creates a lot of output, I'd have to create quite a plugin to test everything and then try and get something meaningful in 1 line... -h <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Hari Sekhon </pre> Marc Powell wrote: <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA0663DD16@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----Original Message----- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nagios-users">mailto:nagios-users</a>- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 8:26 AM To: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] PDC plugin I would also be very interested if anyone knows how to do this. I am using 2003 Active Directory. I was thinking about just doing check_tcp again the ldap and kerberos ports but that is a pretty lame test since they are always bound. I think a more specific test like an ldap query and a kerberos request would be better. Anybody got anything more on this? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Big caveat: I'm not a Windows kind-of-guy but... We use a program named dcdiag that actively checks the state of our domain controllers and send its output to us via e-mail. It performs many tests such as connectivity, replication, netlogons, advertising, etc, etc etc... If I were trying to do this I'd install ActiveState perl and create a simple plugin that called dcdiag and parsed its output looking for failures. Run the plugin via NRPENT (or other) and you should have interesting results. Now, I'm sure there's a better way to parse the output than AS Perl that's native to Windows but I'm just not familiar enough to know what it is. dcdiag from MS TechNet - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://207.46.196.114/WindowsServer/en/library/f7396ad6-0baa-4e66-8d18-1">http://207.46.196.114/WindowsServer/en/library/f7396ad6-0baa-4e66-8d18-1</a> 7f83c5e4e6c1033.mspx?mfr=true Try running it with 'dcdiag /s:<domaincontroller> /e' HTH, Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV">http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>