Adding Windows Nagios Target

[nagiosnoobin]

Hi all,

I am wanting to add a windows server as a Nagios target to be monitored, I would only like to monitor pings from this client. My question is... Is there a way to add a Nagios windows target without using NSClient++. I have been looking around and unable to find any information to add a target in this way.

Any help would be apreciated.

R

[mcapra]

I would only like to monitor pings from this client.

You could configure a host to use the default check-host-alive command as it's check_command. At a bare minimum, your config file might look something like this:

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define host {
        host_name                       <your host name>
        use                             generic-host
        alias                           <your host's alias>
        check_command                   check-host-alive
        max_check_attempts              5
        check_interval                  5
        retry_interval                  1
        check_period                    24x7
        register                        1
        address                         <your host's logical address>
        register                        1
        }

So all you're really doing is telling Nagios "please ping this target and let me know if there is substantial packet loss". By default, this command will warn at 80% and critical at 100%:

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define command {
       command_name                             check-host-alive
       command_line                             $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
}

[nagiosnoobin]

Hi mcapra,

To which cfg file would I configure this? I am a true novice at this

Many thanks
R

[rkennedy]

You can add this into the configuration file of your liking by adding a line to your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg file. The part that matters is this -

(these are just examples)

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cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg
cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/static

This would allow you to create a file called timeperiods.cfg, and add your configuration in there, or you could also create a directory called static, which will then absorb any .cfg files placed inside of it. That's what's powerful about Core, the choice is yours!