Re: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Well in terms of need, I have (and I am sure there are others, seen messages to that effect pass the mailing lists on a regular basis) a defenite need to also monitor more then WMI provides and for that matter check_nt does not have either. I am sure there are many such things but these are high on my list right now : - Monitor file sizes (got a couple of processes that dare write transaction logs that sometimes go up to 2 GB in a matter of days at which point the 2 GB filesize problem on Windows causes the application to die a horrible death) - Monitor Directory Sizes (not so much for me but saw that pass by on the list a few days ago)- File Age (nc_net has this) to detect hanging processes for example.- Log parser with a read-mark (so it only reads new lines since last check). Mind you not clear on how to work this into Nagios. I mean, I would want to have nagios monitor a log file for say an error like 'ORA-x no active database connection' (or whatever the exact error is) and raise an alert at that point. What I am not sure about is how to then let Nagios know the error has been fixed. I suppose I coul parse the whole log every time and archive logs when I restart the process at which point the ORA-x would no longer be present in the log but the problem is these logs are huge and would probably constitute a huge performance hit if read completely on a regular basis. It's a tricky one. Either way unless I am mistaken these things are not easily done in WMI if they are even possible at all. But there is no denying that WMI gives you access to a wealth of information. It will be interesting to see how you do it though. Securitywise it seems like a challenge for sure. And performance wise it is not easy either. Count me in though if you want it tested. Cheers.HansOn 2/14/06, Ron Gage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Ryan Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:snip ron... it is understood that WMI would give users the ability to go way above and beyond the 'check_nt' command... what other capability are you interested in building in that 'check_nt' doesn't provide? From a monitoring perspective, what more would you need than WMI?You getdirect access to the perfmon counters and hardware enumeration.You can even enumerate services and their state via WMI (the Win32_BaseService object).
[Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. This would basically be a command line way to perform various performance queries to a Windows box - with absolutely no agent software anywhere. All that would be required on the Windows side of things is a service account. This would not be for allowing Windows computers to query Linux - at least not immediately. Allowing a Windows computer to query a Linux computer is downstream from this. What can WMI provide? For example, hardware inventory, performance counters, various disk stats (per logical disk), and so on. Would there be any interest in such a program? -- Ron Gage (LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+) Westland, Michigan This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Is that a trick question :-) ? Short answer : Oooh yeah.Cheers.On 2/14/06, Ron Gage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi everyone:I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. Would there be any interest in such a program?
Re: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Ron Gage wrote: Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. This would basically be a command line way to perform various performance queries to a Windows box - with absolutely no agent software anywhere. All that would be required on the Windows side of things is a service account. This would not be for allowing Windows computers to query Linux - at least not immediately. Allowing a Windows computer to query a Linux computer is downstream from this. What can WMI provide? For example, hardware inventory, performance counters, various disk stats (per logical disk), and so on. Would there be any interest in such a program? sure. being able to gather info from w1nd0z3 boxen without any other client software would be nice ;) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Hans: Quoting Hans Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is that a trick question :-) ? Just want to make sure that I'm not going to be wasting my time in something that people aren't interested in! :) Short answer : Oooh yeah. Cheers. On 2/14/06, Ron Gage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. Would there be any interest in such a program? -- Ron Gage (LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+) Westland, Michigan This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Ron: Let me add my 3cents worthyes, yes, that would be great! Need a tester when you get it written? Doug At 12:55 PM 2/14/2006, Ron Gage wrote: Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. This would basically be a command line way to perform various performance queries to a Windows box - with absolutely no agent software anywhere. All that would be required on the Windows side of things is a service account. This would not be for allowing Windows computers to query Linux - at least not immediately. Allowing a Windows computer to query a Linux computer is downstream from this. What can WMI provide? For example, hardware inventory, performance counters, various disk stats (per logical disk), and so on. Would there be any interest in such a program? -- Ron Gage (LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+) Westland, Michigan This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
RE: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
i 6th, 7th and 8th that vote would be super helpful! [quote] Is that a trick question :-) ? Short answer : Oooh yeah. Cheers. On 2/14/06, Ron Gage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. Would there be any interest in such a program? [/quote]
RE: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Gage Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 12:56 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux? Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. This would basically be a command line way to perform various performance queries to a Windows box - with absolutely no agent software anywhere. All that would be required on the Windows side of things is a service account. This would not be for allowing Windows computers to query Linux - at least not immediately. Allowing a Windows computer to query a Linux computer is downstream from this. What can WMI provide? For example, hardware inventory, performance counters, various disk stats (per logical disk), and so on. Would there be any interest in such a program? -- Ron Gage (LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+) ron... it is understood that WMI would give users the ability to go way above and beyond the 'check_nt' command... what other capability are you interested in building in that 'check_nt' doesn't provide? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid3432bid#0486dat1642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
RE: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Quoting Ryan Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip ron... it is understood that WMI would give users the ability to go way above and beyond the 'check_nt' command... what other capability are you interested in building in that 'check_nt' doesn't provide? From a monitoring perspective, what more would you need than WMI? You get direct access to the perfmon counters and hardware enumeration. You can even enumerate services and their state via WMI (the Win32_BaseService object). Beyond that, Nagios itself covers the rest of the need, monitoring wise. I am open to suggestions though! -- Ron Gage (LPIC1 MCP A+ Net+) Westland, Michigan This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Question: is there any interest in a WMI client for Linux?
Ron Gage wrote: Hi everyone: I am thinking about writing a WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) client for Linux. This would basically be a command line way to perform various performance queries to a Windows box - with absolutely no agent software anywhere. All that would be required on the Windows side of things is a service account. This would not be for allowing Windows computers to query Linux - at least not immediately. Allowing a Windows computer to query a Linux computer is downstream from this. What can WMI provide? For example, hardware inventory, performance counters, various disk stats (per logical disk), and so on. Would there be any interest in such a program? I also second this idea. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
