Owen Berry wrote: > 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 > And if you like that, you should try nsclient++ which is a process that is in (more) active development, and can act as either an NSclient listener or an NRPE_NT listener. It has a lot of checks built in, and seems to work great.
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