I recall hearing someone else wrote a WMI proxy for this purpose a while ago, though I don't recall the project.
Perhaps you should compare? Russell On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:22:25PM -0400, Mike Conigliaro wrote: > sorry, documentation is a bit light at this point. =/ > > your guess is correct. if you have to monitor a network of windows > machines, its hard to beat doing it with wmi. unfortunately, you cant > query wmi directly from *nix (as far as i know), but you can run an nrpe > service on one of your windows machines and "proxy" the checks through > that machine. you only need the check_nrpe plugin on the *nix side to > do this. > > my project is simply a collection of plugins, plus a framework for > simplifying plugin development in c# .net. i started it because i > couldnt find a good replacement for the official nagios plugins for > *nix, and i didnt want just a direct win32 port either, because i wanted > the power of wmi for windows monitoring. > > i hope this helps. > > > Trevor Warren wrote: > > Hello Mike, > > > > You indeed have an interesting project here. Was trying to find > > documentation towards understanding how it works but couldnt make any > > progress. Am guessing......, > > > > You configure a service on the nagios box to call the nagiosnt plugin over > > nrpe which can then call any other windows machine using wmi. Is this > > how it > > works???. > > > > Thanks and Regards Mike. > > > > Trevor > > > > On 8/29/06, mike conigliaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> hey guys, > >> > >> i recently started a project to simplify windows monitoring with > >> nagios. my > >> goal was to create a comprehensive set of plugins similar to the official > >> nagios > >> plugins for *nix, but for win32 nrpe daemons. so far, i have wmi plugins > >> for > >> monitoring basic performance metrics like cpu, memory, disk, swap, > >> service > >> state, etc. i've also written some basic snmp, tcp, and icmp plugins, so > >> this > >> project is not at all limited to monitoring windows machines. > >> > >> a very nice side effect of this project was ending up with a simple > >> object > >> oriented framework for writing future plugins. this has improved my > >> plugin > >> development time immensely. for example, its now possible for me to > >> write > >> a > >> brand new, fully-functional wmi plugin from start-to-finish in > >> literally 2 > >> minutes! > >> > >> the project page is here: > >> > >> http://nagiospluginsnt.getproactivenow.com > >> > >> i hope someone out there finds this stuff useful, and im interested in > >> any > >> feedback you might have. > >> > >> -- > >> Mike Conigliaro > >> ProActive Technologies > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> 203.239.0440 ext:317 > >> www.getproactivenow.com > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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