Questions Nagios XI

[Eudes87]

We successfully started monitoring Windows machines using the wmi wizard, we set up a model machine, after that we massively copied the services to other machines, we could not include disk drives (E:, F:, H Only 30% of machines have E: and F: drives.
To survey the machines that have the extra drives, my question is:

1) Nagios XI has a plug-in / add-on that alerts you when a server has a new extra drive (E:, F:, etc), and a more automated way to include these changes in already monitored hosts. ?

2) We have difficulties installing agents, we prioritize monitoring without using agents. On Windows, we have WMI, is it possible to use Linux SSH Proxy without having to install the plug-ins on the machine?
Do you have links to examples of disk, memory, swap, and process monitoring scripts through SSH? And how to configure from the client machine? Ex: Where to save scripts with commands?

3) Is it possible to monitor the services of the AIX machine with SSH Proxy or is other it otherwise better suited?

[Eudes87]

Can anyone clarify these doubts?

[benjaminsmith]

Hello @Eudes87,

Sorry about the delay, the office was closed over the Thanksgiving Holiday. I'll try to answer you're questions, and just let me know if you need more information or not.

1. Good question and one solution might be to monitor the Event Logs in Windows for system changes and alert on specific EventTypes or EventID's using the Windows Event Log wizard. There are also disk space plugins that will check all of the drives ( using SNMP) on the system available on the Nagios Exchange.

2. The best option would be to monitor Linux via SNMP as SSH would still require the installation of the plugin to execute on the remote host. If you would like to use SSH, I would recommend compiling the Nagios plugins on the Linux host.

See:
Monitoring Linux Using SNMP
Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

3. Again, SNMP is a good option or consider installing our NCPA agent as we have an AIX build available and this agent has a standard API available for monitoring ( most common checks).

See: https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#downloads

[Eudes87]

Hello @Eudes87,

Sorry about the delay, the office was closed over the Thanksgiving Holiday. I'll try to answer you're questions, and just let me know if you need more information or not.

1. Good question and one solution might be to monitor the Event Logs in Windows for system changes and alert on specific EventTypes or EventID's using the Windows Event Log wizard. There are also disk space plugins that will check all of the drives ( using SNMP) on the system available on the Nagios Exchange.

2. The best option would be to monitor Linux via SNMP as SSH would still require the installation of the plugin to execute on the remote host. If you would like to use SSH, I would recommend compiling the Nagios plugins on the Linux host.

See:
Monitoring Linux Using SNMP
Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

3. Again, SNMP is a good option or consider installing our NCPA agent as we have an AIX build available and this agent has a standard API available for monitoring ( most common checks).

See: https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#downloads

1 - Which Plugin exactly, there are many in Nagios Exchange.

2 - Great, I did a test and just copying the plugins to 'libexec' worked. Any problem in this case?
It seems that SNMP will not be an option for now.

3 - great, thanks.

[benjaminsmith]

Hello @Eudes87,

Which Plugin exactly, there are many in Nagios Exchange.

The following plugin may work but it does use SNMP to find the drives and then the check_nt (NSClient) to check usage on the drives.

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... er/details