Monitor windows server OS license

[imran_khan]

Hello,

I want to know, how to monitor windows server OS license in Nagios?

Thanks,
Imran Khan.

[eloyd]

Add an NSClient++ check that checks the version. Details at http://docs.nsclient.org/reference/Chec ... os-version

[slansing]

Yep, it's built into NSclient++ as a module that you can check against with check_nt, examples are in the link Eloyd posted. I believe the current iteration is done via check_nrpe.

[imran_khan]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply.

I want to monitor windows server OS license not OS version. If OS license get expired then I will get alert in Nagios.

Thanks,
Imran Khan.

[eloyd]

Whoops! My mistake for not reading more carefully. We don't monitor Windows OS server licenses, so I can't help you with that specifically. However, I'm sure there is some WMI command you can grab that will tell you your license information. You could write a script to do that and then pull that information via the check_nt check.

There may also be something on the Nagios Exchange if you check there.

[sreinhardt]

I would agree, this is something you are either going to need to write a custom plugin for or might be able to gather from wmi. Regardless, I am curious, what windows server licensing is on a subscription basis? All the server OSes that I know of from M$ are perpetual licensing and either are or are not permanently licensed.

[imran_khan]

Hello,

Thanks for the reply,

I don't know about license subscription. Just I need to monitor windows OS license in Nagios.

Thanks,
Imran Khan.

[eloyd]

Again, I'm not a WMI type person, but I don't know of anything that says when a Windows license expires because I didn't think Windows licenses expired? Do you mean you want the license code that was used to register the OS?

[slansing]

If you are looking for the product ID class / License key, you can pull it from WMI with this:

http://alexmg.com/getting-the-windows-p ... using-wmi/

You would need to set up check_wmi_plus as a plugin, or build a powershell script on the windows system to call with NRPE through Nsclient++.

http://www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/?q=quickstart

[FTL]

Use nsclient++ in conjunction with this powershell script

http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/sc ... l-83b4ce97

Im really curious though as to why you need to monitor the licence key repeatedly?

Just run the powershell script manually on each server and copy the keys into an excel/word doc if you want to know them for records?

What is your reason for wanting to monitor them repeatedly with Nagios?