Is there any plugin to trace unused servers in datacenter

[kasu436]

Hi All,

I would like to know whether there is any nagios plugin for tracing unused windows servers in a data-center. Please help me

[tmcdonald]

That really depends on how you define "unused". Nagios has no way of know what you mean by unused. Do you mean not in use at the moment? Powered off? Decommissioned?

Even so, because Nagios attaches services to a host, you would need to either make a new host/service pair for each server or write a custom plugin that checks each server in turn and reports based on that information.

[kasu436]

Hi tmcdonald,

Sorry for the incomplete question and thank you for your response.

I meant to say, Servers are up and running in datacenter what I want to know is how oftenly domain users are connecting to specific server.

[slansing]

Sounds like you might just want to query the windows event log to check user logins, are all of the users who log into those servers coming from that domain? You might want to ask your domain admins if this is tracked elsewhere, perhaps you can query the source? Domain pass-through logs, etc?

Event log monitoring can be done a number of ways, the most common is to use NSClient++'s event log module.

There is also the nageventlogmon: http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... entLog.pdf

[Box293]

I think you need to define this:

what I want to know is how oftenly domain users are connecting to specific server

Do you mean they are logging into the server with an RDP session?
Or they access a file share on the server?
Or it's a print server, how often is the printer share being used?

Once you define "domain users are connecting to specific server", then you can look at what options there are to monitor it (event logs, performance counters, etc).