Using nsca to monitor is a great way to inform nagios than an event has occurred, such as backups, logrotate, etc or a process has run that is kicked off at a random time, such as a DB trigger that happens when a queue gets to a certain length, etc. I use it for notiffffying me of the need to burn DVD's of archives when the archive directory gets to a certain size. This can be anywhere between 4 to 6 days apart, and it relieves me of having to watch. I get an email stating that the directory is at its target size. by nsca firing off an event. It also frees up nagios to do its active checks without the extra overhead of making checks that are going to come back 99.9% of the time with an "ok" status PS. Lots of questions in your post, let's get you to embrace and play with nsca first, then many of the other questions will answer themselves ;-] G.~ <div>On 5/10/07, Sebastien Roy <<a href="mailto:Nagios@pointpub.net">Nagios@pointpub.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hey folks, I tryed to play a bit with nsca and I'm able to send some text message to test it and that's works fine, but I have a couple of question about that... 1- Why I would use nsca to monitor something? How I should use it (example)? Can I use some plugin with nsca? How can I monitor Windows workstation remotly, for disk, memory, cpu usage, etc...? 2- If I need to monitor a remote site with a couple of workstation/switches/router, what could be the best way to monitor it if I can't monitor it directly (remote site with dynamic external IP). Thanks <div>-- Sébastien Roy Administrateur de Systèmes Senior / Senior System Administrator PointPub Media Communications Inc. - St-Eustache, Canada Bur.: (450) 735-4006 ..:.. Cell.: (514) 867-1079 <a href="mailto:Sebastien.Roy@pMedia.CA" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Sebastien.Roy@pMedia.CA</a> <a href="http://www.pointpubmedia.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.pointpubmedia.com</a> ..::.. <a href="http://www.unevitrinesurlemonde.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> www.unevitrinesurlemonde.com</a> </div> </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank"> 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 </blockquote></div> -- Gary Every "Pay it Forward!"