Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
With NSClient++, you can easily copy the INI file around. for NRPE and NSClient++ config files I always put in 3 generic names as allowed hosts ... nagios1.domain.local, nagios2.domain.local, nagios3.domain.local. Those 3 are CNAMEs to my actual nagios systems so I don't have to worry about updating config files if I'm testing a new plugin on a test Nagios box, migrating, etc. Only downside is that it does require good DNS and you have the normally trivial overhead of that DNS lookup. -- Mat W. From: mark.el...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:48:11 +0200 To: mrsbon...@yahoo.com; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows? Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 best ways to monitor Windows in general. I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I do note that the following though from reading about them - 1. Checkwmiplus - I switched from NSclient++ to checkwmiplus, because agent less monitoring gives me a more flexible nagios environment : - not needing a remote agent makes migration NAGIOS to another server easier, because usually because of security reasons, you will be configuring the agent to allow connections from a particular (NAGIOS) server only. - an agent needs to be extra installed on the windows server; that may seem 'easy' ; but it isn't if you are in a large IT group where people carry different heads, and things like 'convincing debates' and 'overal installation procedures' come into place. - there are disadvantages too : checkwmiplus has increased the cpu load on my nagios server dramatically because of the combined use of wmic and the perl-based checkwmiplus script. And multiple instances are running all the time for a large number of servers. I think I will have to migrate to a speedier nagios server in the future - checkwmiplus is still under very active development which has pros and cons; pros because of the active interest of the developer, cons because active installation components are still being changed, making upgrading and followup on versions a little bit more cumbersome and time intensive , then for nsclient++ , which ,already, much more stabilized. M. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
That's exactly what I do. I have a medium sized environment with 200+ Windows servers to manage. I have NSclient++ on every windows host, using a CNAME monitor and have a NSC.ini already configured and dropped into place. Works like a charm. With this method, I can also have check_nt, and check_nrpe if needed. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Mathew Walker lmw94...@hotmail.com wrote: With NSClient++, you can easily copy the INI file around. for NRPE and NSClient++ config files I always put in 3 generic names as allowed hosts ... nagios1.domain.local, nagios2.domain.local, nagios3.domain.local. Those 3 are CNAMEs to my actual nagios systems so I don't have to worry about updating config files if I'm testing a new plugin on a test Nagios box, migrating, etc. Only downside is that it does require good DNS and you have the normally trivial overhead of that DNS lookup. -- Mat W. From: mark.el...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 07:48:11 +0200 To: mrsbon...@yahoo.com; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows? Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 best ways to monitor Windows in general. I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I do note that the following though from reading about them - 1. Checkwmiplus - I switched from NSclient++ to checkwmiplus, because agent less monitoring gives me a more flexible nagios environment : - not needing a remote agent makes migration NAGIOS to another server easier, because usually because of security reasons, you will be configuring the agent to allow connections from a particular (NAGIOS) server only. - an agent needs to be extra installed on the windows server; that may seem 'easy' ; but it isn't if you are in a large IT group where people carry different heads, and things like 'convincing debates' and 'overal installation procedures' come into place. - there are disadvantages too : checkwmiplus has increased the cpu load on my nagios server dramatically because of the combined use of wmic and the perl-based checkwmiplus script. And multiple instances are running all the time for a large number of servers. I think I will have to migrate to a speedier nagios server in the future - checkwmiplus is still under very active development which has pros and cons; pros because of the active interest of the developer, cons because active installation components are still being changed, making upgrading and followup on versions a little bit more cumbersome and time intensive , then for nsclient++ , which ,already, much more stabilized. M. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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 -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine. Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers. There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing this? We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL. Thanks NSClient++ worked fine for us. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
Am Donnerstag, 04. Aug. 11, 09:57:02 schrieb Martin Hugo: I second NSClient++, easy to install on the hosts, no restart necessary. Here's a tip, once you have one working, copy the client.ini file to your install point and drop it in the appropriate folder on the new client before you start the service. I second NSClient++, too. We use NRPE checks to monitor Windows server. For the most common checks we don't even need to modify nsclient.ini Regards, Axel -- Axel Rosenski - Administration - __ Wave Computersysteme GmbH Philipp-Reis-Str. 1-3 / 9 35440 Linden Geschäftsführer: Carsten Kellmann Registergericht Gießen HRB 1823 Tel.: +49 (0)6403 / 9050 8317 Fax: +49 (0)6403 / 9050 5089 mailto:rosen...@wave-computer.de http://www.wave-computer.de -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
NSClient++ works fine us too
with custom commands like these you can monitor disk space usages
alsowhich was one of the main requirements for us!
define service{
use generic-service
host_name srv_storage-01
service_description Disk Space F Drive
check_command check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l f -w 80 -c 90
}
You get a warming alert at 80% disk full and a critical alert 90%
regards
Ananth.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Rai Ricafrente maill...@ricafrente.comwrote:
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine.
Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers.
There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for
doing this?
We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL.
Thanks
NSClient++ worked fine for us.
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Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
I use Nsclient++ and check_mk_agent, coupled with pnp4nagios
http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk.html
Getting check_mk to work the way you want takes a bit of effort, but once
you're used to it there's no turning back.
Cheers,
Phil
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To: Nagios Users List
Cc: Sandra Bonus
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
NSClient++ works fine us too
with custom commands like these you can monitor disk space usages alsowhich
was one of the main requirements for us!
define service{
use generic-service
host_name srv_storage-01
service_description Disk Space F Drive
check_command check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l f -w 80 -c 90
}
You get a warming alert at 80% disk full and a critical alert 90%
regards
Ananth.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Rai Ricafrente
maill...@ricafrente.commailto:maill...@ricafrente.com wrote:
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine.
Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers.
There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing
this?
We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL.
Thanks
NSClient++ worked fine for us.
--
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Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 best ways to monitor Windows in
general.
I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I do
note that the following though from reading about them -
1. Checkwmiplus
* Looks like I don't need to install anything on my Windows servers (a
nice advantage).
* Has lots of checks available.
* Looks like it will be the easiest of the 3 to get started with (yet
to be proven)
* Requires the linux version of wmic (doesn't look too hard to get
going)
* The newest of the methods
2. nsclient++
* Has been around a while (maybe the longest of the three methods),
possibly making it the most proven method.
* Needs an agent installed on Windows.
* Has lots of checks available.
* Checks have to be configured in 2 places (Nagios and the Windows
host).
* Can possibly do a little bit more than checkwmiplus since it has an
agent installed
3. check_mk
* Needs an agent installed on Windows
* Needs configuration installed on Windows (can't quite work that one
out yet)
* Seems to have some magic auto-check creation (sounds good, but what
if I don't want to check everything it finds - yet to be worked out)
* Looks like this one will be the most work/complexity to get started
with
* Looks like it will perform the best for large installations, but for
smaller installations it probably does not matter. This looks like a trade-off
between complexity and performance. I wonder how many hosts/services you need
to make it worth while?
* There looked like a bit of an ugly config where you have to manually
run some command (lodctr /s:counters.ini) to get some checks to work? Yuk!
* Does some magic with my Nagios config. Do I really want some script
playing around with my config? Might limit me in the future with upgrades etc
as Check_mk will have to support whatever version of Nagios I use.
Hey, if I've got any of this wrong please correct me
From: Toonz IT it.to...@gmail.com
To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Sandra Bonus mrsbon...@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2011 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
NSClient++ works fine us too
with custom commands like these you can monitor disk space usages alsowhich
was one of the main requirements for us!
define service{
use generic-service
host_name srv_storage-01
service_description Disk Space F Drive
check_command check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l f -w 80 -c 90
}
You get a warming alert at 80% disk full and a critical alert 90%
regards
Ananth.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Rai Ricafrente maill...@ricafrente.com wrote:
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine.
Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers.
There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing
this?
We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL.
Thanks
NSClient++ worked fine for us.
--
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Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 best ways to monitor Windows in general. I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I do note that the following though from reading about them - 1. Checkwmiplus - I switched from NSclient++ to checkwmiplus, because agent less monitoring gives me a more flexible nagios environment : - not needing a remote agent makes migration NAGIOS to another server easier, because usually because of security reasons, you will be configuring the agent to allow connections from a particular (NAGIOS) server only. - an agent needs to be extra installed on the windows server; that may seem 'easy' ; but it isn't if you are in a large IT group where people carry different heads, and things like 'convincing debates' and 'overal installation procedures' come into place. - there are disadvantages too : checkwmiplus has increased the cpu load on my nagios server dramatically because of the combined use of wmic and the perl-based checkwmiplus script. And multiple instances are running all the time for a large number of servers. I think I will have to migrate to a speedier nagios server in the future - checkwmiplus is still under very active development which has pros and cons; pros because of the active interest of the developer, cons because active installation components are still being changed, making upgrading and followup on versions a little bit more cumbersome and time intensive , then for nsclient++ , which ,already, much more stabilized. M. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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
[Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine. Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers. There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing this? We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL. Thanks -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine. Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers. There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing this? We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL. http://www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/ (The site heading currently , looks a bit garbaged, ignore this). M. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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
