Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows hosts...

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Medin
Hello, DISCLAIMER! I am (BTW) the author of NSClient++ so I am pretty biased... I did a presenation on windows monitoring at netways nagios conference last year where I presented my views on the various options avalible for windows monitoring (slides can be found (in .pptx) http://nsclient.org/ns

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows hosts...

2009-03-10 Thread Anthony Montibello
There are a Lot of options Naturally I prefer NC_NEt since I made it but it is not Ideal for all situations, It uses the Dot Net Framework. and Allows easy access to WMI, Event Logs, and Custom scripts and executables. (use check_nc_net to access the help on the individual commads in nc_net) I wo

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows hosts...

2009-03-10 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/10 Andrew Davis : > What are your opinions of the best combination to A) get the best overall > support Be prepared to learn, contribute and if necessary pay. > and B) have the least impact/installation on a Windows server? SNMP (probably not compatible with A though). > I want something

[Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows hosts...

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Davis
I'm a UNIX and network guy, but since Nagios is my task, I also have to add the Windows servers to Nagios. The network tests are fine, but I'm curious which is the best solution for monitoring local items on a Windows server (2000, 2003, and 2008). Here's what I think the options are: Use che