[Nagiosplug-devel] RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient

[Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com]

Dear All,

Thanks for all your feedback on this issue.

Yves - I think that NSClient is a great product and is doing maybe 70% of 
what we actually need, but it would be great to go the full distance and 
get the performance counters working so we can measure paging file usage 
etc. Unfortunately I am not much of a UNIX coder, but would love to try 
and help in any way possible.

Matt
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"rubiyz" <rubiyz at swyz.com> 
24/04/2003 06:03

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RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient






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Hi,
 
Thanks for the feedback. I?m also fully aware than there are some painful 
issues with NSClient. As this tool is still very much used, I?ll try to 
bring it to a new level of reliability, maybe using another technology...
 
If someone can give me some help on the Unix plug in part, we could save 
some time in the development ...
I?ll do my best to get it very soon!
 
Best regards,
Yves
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Bishop [mailto:dbishop at ehvert.com] 
Sent: mercredi, 23. avril 2003 18:31
To: 'Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com'; Schindewolf, Stefan, 
Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'; 
nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net; 
'nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net'; rubiyz
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient
 
I have nsclient installed on about 50 servers.  "reliable" might be a bit 
of a strong word.  It is working for the most part but there are 
difficulties:
 
Sometimes a reboot results in nsclient losing use of the port to another 
application
A lot of memory (>4G) can be a problem.
Some versions (1.7.0 or so) are dirty and leave a ton of messages in the 
event log
...
 
that being said, aside from SNMP, it is the only way to get the 
information and the problems can be avoided/ignored/worked around.
 
It would be great if someone had the time to clean it up and finish a 
great idea.
 
Just my 2cents (keep the change),
dean
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com 
[mailto:Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com] 
Sent: April 23, 2003 1:28 PM
To: Schindewolf, Stefan, Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'; 
nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net; 
'nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net'; 'rubiyz1047 at swyz.com'
Subject: [Nagios-users] NSClient
 

Dear All, 

On the subject of Nsclient and monitoring Windows servers I was wondering 
if anybody has got Nsclient monitoring Windows 2000 SP3 performance 
monitors reliably. We are using Nagios V1.0 and Plugins 1.3.0. 

If anybody is then please let me know - then I can assume I am doing 
something wrong. 

I accept that you can install other SNMP counters etc, but I am trying to 
make network monitoring as easy as possible - with as fewer clients 
installed on servers. I have included a sample check command below. 

I'd be greateful of any help !! 

Thanks 

Matthew 





define command{ 
        command_name    check_nt_pagingfile 
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v 
COUNTER -l "\\Paging File(_Total)\\% Usage","Paging file usage is %.2f %%" 
-w 70 -c 80 
        } 


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