The Windows agent is called nsclient++. As JLC pointed out, you configure Nagios to use passive services when collecting that data.
I use it on many Windows boxes behind firewalls with great success. I've even managed to write a few custom plugins for things like NTBACKUP, ValultLogix, Oracle and the like. Nagios plugins are very simple to put together so you can monitor almost anything. As a client up sell, offer them active monitoring by putting a Nagios appliance on site that sends it's results back to your main Nagios box. This is called Distributed Monitoring. Shawn > Yep.. but.. and I'm being picky here... > What if I don't want to use Nagios? > By the way, this IS to monitor Windows boxes. > > Thx > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:32 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Open source monitor with Agent > > It's called a passive check, Nagios will check the freshness of the update > such that if it hasn't received an update in a specified amount of time it > faults and dispatches an alert. > > This allows you to run code locally and send the results formatted which > provides the advantage that you can use native methods to do this without > installing something. I am not a fan of the Nagios clients for windows so > I > do this with either snmp or wmi for the active checks and all sorts of > other > scripts for the passive locally generated checks. > > Now you can use an addon on the Nagios side that receives the update via > HTTP post, or you can write to the Nagios cmd file via remote ssh command > from a limited privileged account etc... > > It's very doable. > jlc > > -----Original Message----- > From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:01 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Open source monitor with Agent > > Morning folks! > Hope everyone is well. > > I am familiar with Nagios (somewhat) and how it works but I was > wondering.... > Is there anything like Nagios that allows you to put an agent on a machine > and have the machine call the server to update? > The downside to Nagios is having to deal with firewall issues, so if there > was something that went outbound, it would be perfect. > I have looked & used SpiceWorks but it just can't do what Nagios does, and > not feasible to run on each workstation by itself. > > Thanks for your input. > > Dave > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
