It's called a passive check, Nagios will check the freshness of the update such that if it hasn't received an update in a specified amount of time it faults and dispatches an alert.
This allows you to run code locally and send the results formatted which provides the advantage that you can use native methods to do this without installing something. I am not a fan of the Nagios clients for windows so I do this with either snmp or wmi for the active checks and all sorts of other scripts for the passive locally generated checks. Now you can use an addon on the Nagios side that receives the update via HTTP post, or you can write to the Nagios cmd file via remote ssh command from a limited privileged account etc... It's very doable. jlc -----Original Message----- From: gro...@beachcomp.com [mailto:gro...@beachcomp.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 8:01 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Open source monitor with Agent Morning folks! Hope everyone is well. I am familiar with Nagios (somewhat) and how it works but I was wondering.... Is there anything like Nagios that allows you to put an agent on a machine and have the machine call the server to update? The downside to Nagios is having to deal with firewall issues, so if there was something that went outbound, it would be perfect. I have looked & used SpiceWorks but it just can't do what Nagios does, and not feasible to run on each workstation by itself. Thanks for your input. Dave ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
