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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can also use the ldapsearch command from
your linux based nagios server to query your active directory server. Same as
below, use your favorite scripting language to generate the check.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Natxo Asenjo
[mailto:natxo.asenjo@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, November 02, 2009
1:03 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nagios-users]
Monitoring Active Directory</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:56 PM, C. Bensend <<a
href="mailto:benny@bennyvision.com">benny@bennyvision.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
Hey folks,<br>
<br>
I just started a new job, and my immediate task is to build a<br>
new Nagios system for them. I love my new job... :)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>:-)<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> They would like to monitor Active Directory OUs, so that Nagios<br>
alerts if any of a certain group of OUs are moved/renamed/deleted.<br>
Apparently, this happens every so often due to the number of<br>
admins that need rights to the AD structure.<br>
<br>
So. I checked on the exchange site and did some googling, but<br>
have not found any community plugins that will allow me to specify<br>
an OU and alert if it's not present.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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I do not think there is something like that, but it is not difficult to make
your own. Use dsquery to see if an ou, user or group exists, write your own
plugin and execute it with nrpe. You can use your favorite scripting language
for this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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-- <br>
natxo asenjo<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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