Roger wrote: > I'm looking for a Linux-based tool that will let me making simple WMI > queries on a Windows server. > > Yes, I know that I can use NSClient++ (or equivalent) on the Windows > server to listen for my check_npre commands, but I'm hoping that there > is a "quick and dirty" *nix-based tool that will let me do this > without having to resort to always having to install NSClient++. > I've also been looking at this recently, and it looks like things like wbemcli can be used from linux, but iirc this requires a wmi gateway which means installing some server software, and this is much more hassle than just using nsclient++. A couple of open source wbem gateways that I came across were OpenWbem and OpenPegasus, although I've not had time to try either yet so I can't vouch for how good they are.
Although relying on nsclient++ is not as pure as just a straight wmi query, you only really need 1 nsclient++ installation, from which you can run wmi queries against any number of windows machines on your network. I am also very interested in this stuff at the moment, so please let me know what you figure out on this. -h -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
