[Nagios-users] Windows Agent - Passive Checks

2009-10-20 Thread Tony
Hi List I've used Nagios for a few years now and up to now have only really monitored Linux servers and Network hardware. However I'm now having to monitor Windows servers more and more, which isn't a problem as there are plenty of Windows agents available to monitor Windows servers. However

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Agent - Passive Checks

2009-10-20 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Tue, 20/10/09, Tony nag...@aspireinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi List   I've used Nagios for a few years now and up to now have only really monitored Linux servers and Network hardware. However I'm now having to monitor Windows servers more and more, which isn't a problem as there

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Agent - Passive Checks

2009-10-20 Thread Kevin Keane
I have done exactly that; go to http://www.tntmonitoring.com for more information. The idea actually is a bit more comprehensive; rather than just writing the agent, I made it a package of agent and a number of checks that I found useful; the installer puts it all together. Admittedly, though,

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Agent - Passive Checks

2009-10-20 Thread Anthony Montibello
I was going to add that to NC_Net but if it only reports on trouble then how do you know it has not stalled without freshness checking ? On NC_net there is a similar command but it has slightly different requirements, 1) you can configure NC_Net to preform different Passive checks, but not setup

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Agent - Passive Checks

2009-10-20 Thread Greg Martin
Tony, IMO, the network traffic generated by the service checks is trivial in the scheme of things. Also, do you really need to worry about ALL the services on your windows box? If. say you run IIS on the server, aren't you most interested in knowing IIS Admin and WWW services are running?