Capturing backup status/events in Nagios XI

[mi6agent]

Hi,

In our current environment, a job scheduler triggers a script on all the windows servers to check the backup status. If the backup status is failed, it sends the exception details to BMC server. We are replacing BMC with Nagios XI for monitoring. Do we have a plugin or utility which serves this purpose?

I have explored NRDP Win option, however it captures at a particular interval which may not be helpful. Please advise, if there are any other methods.

Regards,

Ravi

[bwallace]

This plugin may work for you, if you need to run passive checks:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... ck/details

For active checks this looks good:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... og/details

You mentioned that you looked into NRDP, so does this imply you are restricted to running passive checks only?
Let us if you have any requirements regarding active vs passive checks and we can better assist, thanks.

[bwallace]

Also, perhaps the best passive approach is to use NSClient++ (with NSCA) to retrieve the backup status from the Win event log. A thorough description of how this is accomplished is here:
https://outsideit.net/real-time-eventlog-monitoring/