best way to monitor the Windows Servers without using agent

[ikekim]

I'm testing Nagios XI so I have version XI 5.4.7 installed and want to monitor Windows Server 2012 R2 machines.

Installing the agent is likely not allowed in our environment, so what would be my next best way to monitor the Windows Servers?



thanks,
ik

[mcapra]

WMI:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Or the native SNMP agent:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... -snmp.html

I prefer WMI. The plugin available for WMI is quite modular and WMI itself was built specifically as Management Instrumentation for Windows machines.

[dwhitfield]

The plugin available for WMI is quite modular and WMI itself was built specifically as Management Instrumentation for Windows machines.

I'm not picking a side, but the counter argument above is that SNMP has been around a long time and is cross platform. Which option is better is really going to depend on what people in your environment know, or may need to use in the future. If you are a Windows shop and it seems you always will be, I see very little reason not to use WMI.

[ikekim]

We have more AIX & Redhat than Windows.

I need to avoid installs like agents and will need to monitor using the most firewall friendly method.
For example, in our environment SSH is definitely firewall friendly because we allow that traffic vs the ports the agents use because I would have to request to have those ports to be opened.

Therefore, I think WMI would be easier than SNMP, since I would have to install SNMP client & then config?

What do you think?


thanks,
ik

[scottwilkerson]

We have more AIX & Redhat than Windows.

I need to avoid installs like agents and will need to monitor using the most firewall friendly method.
For example, in our environment SSH is definitely firewall friendly because we allow that traffic vs the ports the agents use because I would have to request to have those ports to be opened.

Therefore, I think WMI would be easier than SNMP, since I would have to install SNMP client & then config?

What do you think?


thanks,
ik

Correct, generally WMI requires the least to setup.