Monitoring IIS

[zaara]

I need to monitor IIS to determine whether its running, stopped, etc. I've been looking at plugins, however they arent many available for this task. One plugin I looked at was the check_iis_site. However, this monitors an iis site rather than iis itself. Is there a way to monitor IIS through Nagios?

CentOS 5.6, 32 Bit,VMware

[nscott]

The WMI plugin has the capability to monitor running services, such as IIS.

Or if you want to go a different route you can follow this doc:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... _Agent.pdf

And then use the bundled Windows Server wizard to monitor services.

[zaara]

Hi,

When I use WMI to monitor running services, the status for all the services shows 'Critical' with a status information of 'null.'
How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Zaara

[lmiltchev]

Run in terminal as root:

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# yum -qy install perl-DateTime
# yum -qy install perl-Config-IniFiles
# yum -qy install perl-List-MoreUtils

Let us know if this fixed your problem.

[txwomansu]

We have similar 'null' Information with WMI checks. I installed the client on NagiosXI server as described in docs, but I noticed that the client is for centos and we have rhel6. Could that be the problem? Also tried to install perl-DateTime and perl-List_MoreUtils but yum cannot find such packages... Please help. (The WMI service is running and 135 TCP port is open.)

[lmiltchev]

The WMI client must be installed successfully first in order to be able to monitor Windows machines. The process is described here:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... For_XI.pdf

If you receive any errors during the installation, it would not work. Installing the perl Date::Time module could be a pain in a neck on some distros but it has to be done first.

Only after you installed the WMI client successfully, you can install the WMI wizard:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ng_WMI.pdf

If you installed the wizard with a failed WMI client installation you will have to fix this by:

1. Installing the WMI client
2. Re-installing the WMI wizard

If you fail to do so, you will receive "critical" and "null status" errors.

[txwomansu]

I did not receive any errors during WMI client install on rhel6 (32-bit). I noticed, though, that the installed package is for CentOS. How can I make sure perl Date::Time module is installed?

Thank you.

[lmiltchev]

Without the perl Date::Time module installed, it will not work. Try running in terminal:

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# yum install perl-DateTime.i686

Then re-install the WMI client and finally re-install the WMI wizard.