new user - quick windows monitor q's

[lraymond]

I am new to nagios, but have my 3.x server running on a u12.04LTS server. My 1st task is to get 2 windows servers monitored as we are pushing some new sites and I want to ensure things are running correctly. I have the nagios plugins, the windows.cfg, the nscd client running and one window host added. He is reporting all greens on the check's, but have 2 questions to start.

1. Can I monitor IIS (nothing fancy, just hit the local server, make sure it responds and maybe get a response time).

2. Graph's. I am coming from zenoss which did have some great out of the box features regarding CPU, RAM graphing, etc. Is there a plugin or something else that needs to be done to get these graphs going?

I am reading the doc's which are great (as they got my this far with a windows box monitoring), but were releasing a few new sites and I wanted to get some stats in a graph on how the server is behaving both before and after. I saw the nagios exchange which had some app pool things, but not just a hit the site, save the time, and #2 I've seen some good screenshots, but a little pressed for time with this.

I have 50+ linux box's to add which I am betting will be much easier, but that too the docs will help with.

Thanks

[jsmurphy]

Answering your questions directly:
1. This is easy, use the check_http plugin that comes with the base plugins package to check the sites are running (and the response time) and you can also use the NSCD service monitoring features to monitor the W3 services are running.

2. Nagios core out of the box doesn't have graphing. When it comes to graph monitoring for Nagios all the plugins involve a little bit of setup work, but the two most popular plugins seem to be either nagiosgraph or PNP4Nagios... but there's no shortage of options when it comes to Nagios and graphing. I also believe nagiosgraph is the simpler of the two.

This is a tutorial for a nagiosgraph install: http://xavier.dusart.free.fr/nagios/en/nagiosgraph.html
And here is one for PNP4nagios: http://nagios.frank4dd.com/nagiosgraph/index.htm

[lraymond]

Perfect.

#1 I will be working on tomorrow morninig, and #2, I did get nagiosgraph installed, some path issues (started a new thread) but looks like it will do just fine!

Thanks for a prompt reply. Looking forward to better questions as I move forward .... love an active board, does make life easy!

[jsmurphy]

Glad I could help