Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Both solutions require installing some agent software on the monitored >> system. >> > > Ironically, that is what I am trying to get away from. It's a pain in the > a$$ to have to manage the installation of software on multiple platforms > when snmp does most of what I need. > > I hope there is soon something that can be executed by Nagios to do native > wmi queries, than from the windows perspective we wouldn't need much more... > I have to correct myself. You only need to install an agent on ONE Windows box, because WMI can query all other Windows machines over the network just like SNMP does. In fact, it would be entirely possible to have a Linux plugin that queries WMI (as far as I know, WMI is a standard technology, not just Microsoft), but I don't think that exists right now.
I know of at least two plugins that do this. One is Groundworks' agentless WMI plugin ( http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1704.html;d=1 ). The other one is my own set of plugins at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tntnagiosplugin/ . Mine works as a plugin to TNTMonitoring or should also work with NSClient++ - I haven't tested that configuration, though. Again, you only need it on one Windows box. I haven't tried the Groundworks one, but I think it, too, works with NSClient++, and probably also would work with TNTMonitoring. Since the Groundworks is written in VBS and uses .NET, it might even work on a Linux box with a suitable Mono installation if you really are adventurous. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
