[Cialug] Nagios check_nt

[Cory Meyer]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:27 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> At 10:00 AM 4/25/2012, you wrote:
>
>> Have you checked out Check-MK yet? (http://mathias-kettner.de/**
>> check_mk.html <http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk.html>).
>>  It does use it's own agent and quite a bit more efficient than Nagios'
>> standard active checks via NRPE.  It has built in support for running the
>> agent over SSH tunnels though not sure how well it would work with your
>> Windows systems.  (
>> http://mathias-kettner.de/**checkmk_datasource_programs.**html<http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_datasource_programs.html>
>>
>
> Had not found check_MK, .. thanks for the info!
>
> Looking more at NSCLient++ & NSCA right now as there are a bunch of remote
> Windoze machines where the only link we have to them is a reverse SSH
> tunnel (and, of course, RDP).
>
> Due to the simplicity of the Check-mk agent on Windows and that it runs as
a service on tcp/6556 I'm guessing it wouldn't be much different than
accessing NSClient++ over a reverse tunnel.


>
>  Currently I'm monitoring just over 500 hosts with 10k services and so far
>> my server has no problem keeping up with each host being polled once every
>> two minutes.
>>
>
> What was your final architecture? Do you do any Windoze machines?
>
>
I've got quite a few Windows, Linux, and Solaris servers that are all being
monitored through the Check-MK agent.  The rest of the hosts are Cisco
routers/switches, UPS, and NetApp filers all being monitored via SNMP.
 Here is a link to the documented checks built into Check-MK:
http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_checks.html


 If you're wanting to setup a quick environment to test out your old config
>> check out OMD (http://omdistro.org/)
>>
>
> Excellent - thanks!
>
>
>        Lee
>