NRPE Windows plug-ins that includes performance metrics

[pluginpaul]

Hi all,

I have a very light weight nrpe Windows service running on a server and am using the basic old NRPE_NT plug-in pack from 2006 to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk.
I've recently installed the nagiosgraph add-on and found that the old NRPE_NT basic plug-in pack does not support performance metrics reporting for nagiosgraph.


Looking on Nagios Exchange site, I actually can't seem to find a modern NRPE Windows basic plug-in pack that supports performance metrics. The nearest I can see is the plug-in pack on the itefix site (check_pdm) however it requires cygwin to be installed on the Windows server which I'm reluctant to do.


Any suggestions for a standalone Windows executable NRPE light weight plug-in pack that supports CPU, Memory (Physical and Page file), Disk (Space and I/O) checking that also gives back performance metrics compatible with nagiosgraph?

Cheers!

[rkennedy]

I would look at using check_nrpe in NSclient++ vs check_nt, as it will produce the performance data. A lot of configuration examples for it can be found here - http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/common-checks (see pages below for specifics, CPU/Disk/Memory/Network)

[pluginpaul]

Hi rkennedy, thanks for replying.

I was looking at nsclient too but it seems you have to install the full nsclient service to use those nice plug-ins since they are dll's rather than standalone exe's.

Ideally I'd prefer to continue using the tiny nrpe service app I have running and was looking for just the plug-in's like those found in nsclient. Are there any standalone plug-ins available like those found in nsclient or is switching to the full nsclient service the only way to go?

[dwhitfield]

Realistically, you probably want the full client, but NSClient is GPL (https://docs.nsclient.org/license.html), so you could strip it down.

They also specifically mention on their site adding feature requests at https://github.com/mickem/nscp/issues. I'm sure you are not the only person looking for something more light-weight.

[pluginpaul]

Thanks all for the replies. I'll investigate that over the weekend.

[dwhitfield]

Fantastic! We're here 9am to 5pm Monday - Thursday (Friday 9am-2pm), so we'll get back to it on Monday. And...if you get to it sooner, great!