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
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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 also....which
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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