[Nagiosplug-help] Commands to be ran on windows machines remotely for Nagios

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

I think I get what you're talking about, but it's not an easy thing.

What you want is to join your Linux monitoring box into a Windows domain
and then use a Windows account with proper access rights (ex Domain
Admins) on the Linux box to connect to a share of the form
\\SERVER_NAME\x$ where "x" is the drive letter you want to access.

It's certainly doable, but I don't think the work required is really
worth it, and especially since it may considerably slow down some
operations on your Linux server.

Thomas

On 09/01/07 06:13 AM, " Sameer " wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>  
> Thanks for the important information regarding cscript.exe.
>  
> I am not interested to use the NRPE daemon as it is necessary to run
> continuously on the Windows machine.
>  
> I have written custom scripts in Perl which runs on the windows machine
> to check the directory and file existence and reports to the Nagios
> server accordingly. Currently I am using the NRPE daemon to run this
> script and is working fine.
>  
> I am puzzled how Sitescope uses the NetBIOS information/credentials to
> login to the remote windows machine and retrieves data. I tried to
> search details on google but failed to get any.
>  
> Your help will be valuable for me to add a remote service check to
> Nagios w/o using NRPE.
>  
> Regards,
> Sameer
> 
> 
> */Ingo Lantschner <ingo.lists at vum.at>/* wrote:
> 
> 
>     Am 09.01.2007 um 11:29 schrieb Sameer:
> 
>     > Is there any facility/tool/command available for running the
>     > command on the Windows machine which could provide the result back
>     > to Nagios server.
>     You can use NRPE, since there are nrpe-services for Windows
>     available. From NRPE you can launch VBS-Scripts (using
>     Windowsscripting Host, cscript.exe namely) even on remote-hosts, who
>     do not have NRPE localy installed. Seems to work in small
>     environments. I would not suggest it for larger LAN/WANs. Better to
>     go with SNMP there, which can be checked directly - it is more stable.
> 
>     HTH Ingo.
> 
>     -- 
>     Ingo Lantschner
>     Vienna/Austria
>     Mob (+43-664) 143 84 18
>