monitoring windows updates with check_windows_updates.wsf

[mfdoom]

Hello,

i´m somewhat stuck in trying to get the

check_windows_updates.wsf

from the website

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... es/details

to work. Maybe someone can shed some insight on me. I d/l the wsf-file and put it on in the /scripts folder on the windowsmachine.

how do i call the script from the nsc.ini (i´m using version 0.38)?

is this correct?:

check_windows_updates=scripts\check_windows_updates.wsf w:1 c:2

and how do i create the checkcommand on the nagios server?

thx for the input

[mfdoom]

I´ve found a solution posted on another board where a reference is made to "c:\nrpe\bin". i don´t have an NRPE folder but only the NSClient++ dir under program files. With which program can i test the script local?

U:\>c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe -NoLogo -T:120 C:\NRPE\bin\check_windows_updates.wsf /w:0 /c:1

[mfdoom]

I tested it and it seemed that this works:
Input:

c:\windows\system32\cscript.exe -NoLogo -T:120 "C:\Program Files\NSClient++\scripts\check_windows_updates.wsf" /w:0 /c:1

Output:

reboot required

How do i have to enter the command in the nsc.ini? And how do i set up the check command on the nagios server to call the external command?

thx in forward

[jsmurphy]

You were so close, the command should look something like this:
command[check_windows_updates]=cscript.exe //T:30 //NoLogo scripts\check_windows_updates.wsf /w:0 /c:1

The command[] part is optional, I normally leave it in to keep it in line with the Linux NRPE, cscript acts as a wrapper for executing the script the //T:30 is a 30 second time out for the script and NoLogo suppresses some unnecessary cscript output. The scripts\scriptname is the path to the script, you could alternatively use "C:\Program Files\NSClient++\scripts\check_windows_updates.wsf" explicitly if you didn't want to use a relative path.

[mfdoom]

Hello jsmurphy,

thank you. Now i got the command tested and running local. Can you tell me with which plugin on the nagios-server can i test the functionality? Is it check_nrpe? since i read that nrpe is integrated in nsclient++

Thanks for the advice.

[mfdoom]

i tried this on the server but failed:

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H myserver -c check_windows_updates

the output is:

UNKNOWN: No handler for that command