I have continued on the NSClient++ path. I have recently added windows counters
such as thread count and paging on the windows machines. It seems to work well
for now. I will continue to keep expanding and see what it does.
Thanks for all the input.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frost, Mark {PBG}
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:40 AM
To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ or NRPE
This discussion intrigues me...
We've been using NRPE_NT with our Windows boxes (probably around 200 that we're
monitoring) because I think I had the impression that this was the more
commonly used of the two (NRPE/nsclient++). We primarily use it to call the
wincheck_counter.exe file to probe Windows' PDH counters. However, from seeing
the responses so far I'd say it appears that the majority of folks are using
nsclient++ instead.
I had considered nsclient++ at one time because it doesn't appear that nrpe_nt
is actively developed anymore, yet nsclient++ has a lot of activity. When I
tried it out, I did have some difficulty getting it working properly and
eventually gave up on it. Then again, I maybe just didn't give it enough time
and didn't understand how it worked well enough. It seemed to me that you
mostly were able to probe things that it gave you the opportunity to probe.
With NRPE_NT and wincheck_counter.exe (which doesn't seem to me to be run by
all that many people either...) we could probe anything that was returnable by
the PDH lib.
I also had the impression that nsclient++ carried a bigger footprint than
NRPE_NT did.
One problem we've seen with NRPE_NT and wincheck_counter.exe is that it seems
rather unreliable on Win2k machines -- at least for the things we commonly
check like cpu, memory and disk space. A number of times it will just time out.
Another list member indicated that they'd had crashes with Win2k3 -- we've
never seen that.
Given that nsclient++ seems much more widely used and is still actively
developed, I'm considering giving it another shot.
This issue of figuring out what's widely used has come up for me before with
Nagios. When I was trying to figure out whether to use nagiosgraph or
nagiosgrapher, for example. Just because something's in the Nagios Exchange,
doesn't mean it's any good, actively supported, or perhaps even worth using. I
wish I could send out a poll :-)
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco
Borsani
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:24 AM
To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] R: R: NSClient++ or NRPE
I have Nagios 1.4 on Linux server.
374 hosts (Linux/Unix,Windows and network equipment)
877 services
More than 40 windows systems have NSClient++ installed
Regards
Marco
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Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Antonio
Pereira
Inviato: giovedì 7 giugno 2007 17.36
A: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] R: NSClient++ or NRPE
The way I have set up is Nagios 2.7 on Linux and installed NSClient++
on windows servers. I am monitoring the windows servers using NSClient++.
Is this the best option? I want to make sure before I go any further in
configuration. I am presently monitoring 2 windows servers.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco
Borsani
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:30 AM
To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] R: NSClient++ or NRPE
On unix/linux system you can use only NRPE.
On Microsoft system you can use NSClient++ (that contains both features
of old NSClient and NRPE).
Regards
Marco
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Da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Per conto di Antonio
Pereira
Inviato: giovedì 7 giugno 2007 17.07
A: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Oggetto: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ or NRPE
Hello,
I am trying to figure out which one is better to use and I am having a
difficult time to determine which is better. So I figured I would ask all of
you.
Which one is better NRPE or NSClient++?
Thanks
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