Passive checks from windows

[paul.jobb]

Hi;

I was wondering what the best approach for the following.

One of our exchange administrators has developed a powershell script to test mailflow across a number of servers, from what I understand it takes about 6 minutes to run so it seems best to configure it to passively update the status into nagios. I would most likely just schedule it using windows scheduled tasks what is the easiest method for updating nagios with the output? ncpa, nsca or nrpe? command line utility? update via a web URL?

Thanks,
Paul

[lmiltchev]

Your best bets would be to use either NSCA with NSClient++ (where NSClient++ will schedule the passive checks) or NRDS (where checks will be scheduled via the Windows Task Scheduler).

[paul.jobb]

with nrds how would I format the xml If I wanted to include long service output as part of the output, the below doesn't seem to import my extra information

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<checkresults>
<checkresult type='service'>
<hostname>Email Service</hostname>
<servicename>Mail Flow</servicename>
<state>0</state>
<output>OK: Mail Flow test completed succesfully test|mailboxes=160
long service output line 1
long service output line 2
</output>
</checkresult>
</checkresults>

[paul.jobb]

I figured it out, \n does what I was looking for

[dwhitfield]

Glad to hear it is resolved. I am going to lock the thread. Please feel free to post again if you have you another issue. Thank you for using the Nagios forums!