> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of PO Michel > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE on Windows guest error > > Hi > > Thanks for your help. Of course, I have tried to restart the NRPE > service on the Windows remote host many times. > > I will try to use SNMP (much easier to maintain for 70 servers) > instead of NRPE. > > - PO Michel (misterpo)
We've moved away from NRPE for a variety of reasons, including that we don't want to have to maintain a separate configuration file on each server. To that end, I've been using HP's WMI Mapper package (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?la ng=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-aeb689f58db74128b59af142ce) on a Windows server, with wbemcli (from the sblim-wbemcli package) and custom perl scripts, to monitor our Windows servers. One server can be used as a proxy for multiple servers, and we generally use one Windows server per site we monitor. Just create a suitable user account on the domain and install the package. Done. No additional configuration required on the server - just define your check commands on your nagios server. You can get *far* more information from WMI than you can from SNMP. We're running this way with 68 hosts and about 429 service checks as of right now, running most checks in 4-minute intervals, with no problems whatsoever. I suppose if check latency starts to become an issue, we'll look at using ePN. But that is a project for another day. At some point, I'll post some documentation on our Windows server monitoring method (to the wiki, I assume), and the perl scripts themselves (to nagios-exchange), but the scripts, while suitable for in-house use, aren't ready to be shared with the world yet. We've been monitoring our clients' servers this way for about 4 months - and have been very happy with the results so far. Let me know if you're interested and I can PM the perl scripts to you. - Brock ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
