<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint" xmlns:a="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:access" xmlns:dt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882" xmlns:s="uuid:BDC6E3F0-6DA3-11d1-A2A3-00AA00C14882" xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset" xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema" xmlns:b="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:publisher" xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet" xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet" xmlns:odc="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:odc" xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40" xmlns:q="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:rtc="http://microsoft.com/officenet/conferencing" xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:Repl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/repl/" xmlns:mt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/meetings/" xmlns:x2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/excel/2003/xml" xmlns:ppda="http://www.passport.com/NameSpace.xsd" xmlns:ois="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/ois/" xmlns:dir="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/directory/" xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:dsp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/dsp" xmlns:udc="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:sub="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/2002/1/alerts/" xmlns:ec="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" xmlns:sp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" xmlns:sps="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:udcs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/soap" xmlns:udcxf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/xmlfile" xmlns:udcp2p="http://schemas.microsoft.com/data/udc/parttopart" xmlns:wf="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/workflow/" xmlns:dsss="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig-setup" xmlns:dssi="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2006/digsig" xmlns:mdssi="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/digital-signature" xmlns:mver="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns:mrels="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships" xmlns:spwp="http://microsoft.com/sharepoint/webpartpages" xmlns:ex12t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:ex12m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:pptsl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/SlideLibrary/" xmlns:spsl="http://microsoft.com/webservices/SharePointPortalServer/PublishedLinksService" xmlns:Z="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:" xmlns:st="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'>Kevin, you can either monitor user services (POP3, SMTP, MAPI, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by monitoring the ports or monitor for existence in memory of processes through an SNMP agent. Windows SNMP agent, written for Windows NT 4, are broken and do not report data accurately. A good alternative is SNMP Informant, which at least used to have a free version. I hear Net-snmp now has a Windows version as well which might work. Path of least resistance is to monitor (service) ports which do not require an agent to be installed, which is likely what you want anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Kevin Mitnikc [mailto:teckadmin@gmail.com] <br> <b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 29, 2009 4:01 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Allan Clark<br> <b>Cc:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Creating custom service checks<o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>I am looking to monitor the Microsoft Exchange Server services such as:<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> <o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Microsoft Exchange Management<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>"C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\exmgmt.exe"<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>These services will be monitored on the exchsrv01 server.<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> How do I go about creating this service to be monitored?<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> All the services I'm currently monitoring have already been predefined for me.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Kevin M. <o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>2009/6/29 Allan Clark <<a href="mailto:allanc@chickenandporn.com">allanc@chickenandporn.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal>Hi Kevin; <o:p></o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 23:14, Kevin Mitnikc <<a href="mailto:teckadmin@gmail.com" target="_blank">teckadmin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>I am looking for some assistance in setting up custom service monitors.<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> I am looking to monitor the Microsoft Exchange services, along with a couple other services.<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> How do I go about setting this up in Nagios.<span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span> <o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>I have browsed over some direction, but I seem to only be finding sections of setting this up.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Can somebody please give me some direction and instruction on creating these custom service monitors.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Can you go into more detail? <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span>Nagios is configured by editing the config files, and running a "nagios -v" to check them; if you have examples of what you're trying, including the "couple other services", we might be able to offer concrete suggestions. <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span>...even if it means you give us a rundown of a part of your network, with IP address replaced to 192.168.x.y IPs and host FQDNs replaced to names such as <a href="http://exch01.example.com/" target="_blank">exch01.example.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>It might help to get such an initial example setup to get you going.<o:p></o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal>Allan<o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal>-- <br> <a href="mailto:allanc@chickenandporn.com" target="_blank">allanc@chickenandporn.com</a> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span>"<span lang=ZH-CN>��</span>" <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/goldfish" target="_blank">http://linkedin.com/in/goldfish</a><br> please, no proprietary attachments (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/cbgq" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/cbgq</a>)<o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>