Kevin, you can either monitor user services (POP3, SMTP, MAPI, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by monitoring the ports or monitor for existence in memory of processes through an SNMP agent. Windows SNMP agent, written for Windows NT 4, are broken and do not report data accurately. A good alternative is SNMP Informant, which at least used to have a free version. I hear Net-snmp now has a Windows version as well which might work. Path of least resistance is to monitor (service) ports which do not require an agent to be installed, which is likely what you want anyway.
From: Kevin Mitnikc [mailto:teckad...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:01 PM To: Allan Clark Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Creating custom service checks I am looking to monitor the Microsoft Exchange Server services such as: Microsoft Exchange Management "C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\exmgmt.exe" These services will be monitored on the exchsrv01 server. How do I go about creating this service to be monitored? All the services I'm currently monitoring have already been predefined for me. Thanks, Kevin M. 2009/6/29 Allan Clark <all...@chickenandporn.com> Hi Kevin; On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 23:14, Kevin Mitnikc <teckad...@gmail.com> wrote: I am looking for some assistance in setting up custom service monitors. I am looking to monitor the Microsoft Exchange services, along with a couple other services. How do I go about setting this up in Nagios. I have browsed over some direction, but I seem to only be finding sections of setting this up. Can somebody please give me some direction and instruction on creating these custom service monitors. Can you go into more detail? Nagios is configured by editing the config files, and running a "nagios -v" to check them; if you have examples of what you're trying, including the "couple other services", we might be able to offer concrete suggestions. ...even if it means you give us a rundown of a part of your network, with IP address replaced to 192.168.x.y IPs and host FQDNs replaced to names such as exch01.example.com <http://exch01.example.com/> . It might help to get such an initial example setup to get you going. Allan -- all...@chickenandporn.com "金鱼" http://linkedin.com/in/goldfish please, no proprietary attachments (http://tinyurl.com/cbgq)
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