Best way to monitor a single windows server?

[msimmons]

I really only need something to alert me when my Avg Disk Queue Length stays high for a duration of time. Does Nagios need to be installed on a separate server?

[lmiltchev]

You can add the Avg. Disk Queue Length performance counter on your windows box if you haven't done it, yet. Then run the Windows Server Wizard. In the Step 3 of the wizard, you can specify which performance counters you would like to monitor. There are some examples that you can use on this page.

[msimmons]

Yes but where do I actually install Nagios? " Nagios XI can only be installed on a RHEL or CentOS Linux server. " It sounds like I would need a separate machine? Is that correct?

[slansing]

Nagios XI needs to be installed on one of those linux distrobutions. You can use a VM loading program to "play" one of our pre-configured virtual machines, or install from source as noted above. These options are all listed here, and there are basic installation guides available:

http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... loads/main

Let us know if you need further help.

[msimmons]

Ah, ok. It won't work out for my situation then.

Thanks!

[slansing]

Yes, Nagios is not a Windows based software package, though it can be run from a Windows system as I had mentioned. Leaving open for a reply if one is warranted.