RE: Open source monitor with Agent

2011-08-03 Thread Shawn Everett 
The Windows agent is called nsclient++.  As JLC pointed out, you configure
Nagios to use passive services when collecting that data.

I use it on many Windows boxes behind firewalls with great success.

I've even managed to write a few custom plugins for things like NTBACKUP,
ValultLogix, Oracle and the like.  Nagios plugins are very simple to put
together so you can monitor almost anything.

As a client up sell, offer them active monitoring by putting a Nagios
appliance on site that sends it's results back to your main Nagios box. 
This is called Distributed Monitoring.

Shawn

> Yep.. but.. and I'm being picky here...
> What if I don't want to use Nagios?
> By the way, this IS to monitor Windows boxes.
>
> Thx
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:32 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Open source monitor with Agent
>
> 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
>
>
>
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Re: Open source monitor with Agent

2011-08-03 Thread kz20fl 
Servers Alive is cheap and cheerful, don't know how good it is thru firewalls

Sent from my POS BlackBerry  wireless device, which may wipe itself at any 
moment

-Original Message-
From: 
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 15:12:53 
To: NT System Admin Issues
Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" 
Subject: RE: Open source monitor with 
Agent

Yep.. but.. and I'm being picky here...
What if I don't want to use Nagios? 
By the way, this IS to monitor Windows boxes.

Thx

-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Open source monitor with Agent

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




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RE: Open source monitor with Agent

2011-08-03 Thread Groups 
Yep.. but.. and I'm being picky here...
What if I don't want to use Nagios? 
By the way, this IS to monitor Windows boxes.

Thx

-Original Message-
From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 10:32 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Open source monitor with Agent

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




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RE: Open source monitor with Agent

2011-08-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale 
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




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Re: Open source monitor with Agent

2011-08-03 Thread Cameron 
Nagios has a client that will run on machines and report back to Nagios
(haven't tried it on 2008 or Win 7). It allows you to monitor CPU/HDD
space/RAM usage etc.

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM,  wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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Open source monitor with Agent

2011-08-03 Thread Groups 
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




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