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

[Dean Bishop]

likewise i believe that nsclient is invaluable but incomplete.  any
assistance i can lend i would be happy to.  do you have a todo list?

dean


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew.Quinney at hollandandholland.com
To: rubiyz
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Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
Sent: 4/24/2003 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient


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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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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