For those who were interested in monitoring Windows from Nagios, another way to do this is to use the standard Nagios check_nt plugin on the Nagios side, and a service called nsclient (NetSaint client) on the Windows side. You can get it at http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/. Even though it looks like nsclient is no longer being developed or supported, we've had no problems with it so far.
With that installed you can monitor things like CPU load, memory load, disk space, service state, process state, system uptime, file date and time, and anything Windows monitors via WMI ... i.e. anything you can see in the Windows Performance tool (perfmon)! We use this for monitoring all kinds of things on our Exchange Server and Blackberry Enterprise Server. They both have a tendency to go belly up, so they need close attention. We're almost totally a Unix/Linux house, so it took some time before we figured this stuff out, and I can't claim it's the best way to go. But let me know if you have any questions about our setup. Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
