Using NSClient++ to obtain the Windows Version

[Box293]

I've done this in the past with SNMP in my Dell OpenManage script. The result I get is as follows:

OK: <servername>, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2, Standard Edition, Version 5.2 (Build 3790 : Service Pack 2) (x86)

Question: Is there a built in check in check_nrpe or check_nt for NSClient that will report the same information above. I know I could write a simple .vbs script and deploy it to all my NSClient++ hosts, I just thought this would be one of those built in features of NSClient++

I've tried google and also Altavista ( ) but couldn't find much

[nscott]

Box,

I looked at the NSClient++ built in plugins and I don't think there is one that deal explicitly with your task. However, I'm not a WMI pro, but I bet you could use NSClient's CheckWMI built-in and use that to fetch the operating system value.

[Box293]

Thanks for that Nick, it seems this is what I am after. I can get a result using the following command:

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./check_nrpe -H <host> -p 5666 -c CheckWMI -a "Query=Select Version,Caption,CSDVersion,BuildNumber from win32_OperatingSystem" columnSyntax="%value%" columnSeparator=", "

3790, Service Pack 2, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Server 2003, Standard Edition, 5.2.3790|'wmi query'=1

The problem I am having now is trying to re-order the output. I want to format it similarly to my example in my first post. It doesn't matter how I type the query in it always comes back the same i.e.

• Query=Select Version,Caption,CSDVersion,BuildNumber
  or
  Query=Select Caption,CSDVersion,Version,BuildNumber

Any ideas?

[nscott]

Box,

Thats strange the plugin behaves that way. I think the only way around it is a rather ugly hack of the plugin results.

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./check_nrpe -H <host> -p 5666 -c CheckWMI -a "Query=Select Version,Caption,CSDVersion,BuildNumber from win32_OperatingSystem" columnSyntax="%value%" columnSeparator=", " | awk -F'[|,,]' '{print $3,",",$4,"Version",$5,"(Build",$1,":",$2,")|",$6}'

I'm not sure how the quotes will be handled, but a hack like this may or may not work for you. But otherwise I'm not sure how to restructure the output.

[Box293]

Thanks for that, I'll have a play. I've also created a thread on the NSClient++ Forums so I'll see if I get a response there.

http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/discussion/topic/878#topic