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SCOM2Nagios

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Anyone ever try out SCOM2Nagios?

i can't get my company away from SCOM for the Windows servers and was looking at this: http://www.mbaeker.de/tag/scom2nagios/

I grabbed a copy and checked it out quickly and it seems to use NSCA.

Any advice?
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Re: SCOM2Nagios

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Hmm, SCOM huh, if it uses NSCA to send data back up to Nagios it should function as NSClient does. A quick overview of it shows that everything Nagios requires will be sent up to it, in the correct format. Have you been able to integrate it at all yet?
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slansing wrote:Hmm, SCOM huh, if it uses NSCA to send data back up to Nagios it should function as NSClient does. A quick overview of it shows that everything Nagios requires will be sent up to it, in the correct format. Have you been able to integrate it at all yet?
I think we have looked at it the same amount of time as each other. I'll report back in a week or 2.

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Re: SCOM2Nagios

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Let us know how it works out. You should not run into any issues as far as NSCA is concerned since the version now packaged with XI is able to receive packets from previous versions. That would probably have been the main concern here besides the returned data formats.
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slansing wrote:Let us know how it works out. You should not run into any issues as far as NSCA is concerned since the version now packaged with XI is able to receive packets from previous versions. That would probably have been the main concern here besides the returned data formats.
That is definitely what I wanted to hear. if I can't run nagios natively on these servers, this is surely my second choice :)
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Awesome, let us know when you start testing, I'm making this last post here so it disappears from our dashboard and we don't get a slap on the wrist for a 2 week old thread :)
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We are testing this now, will report back results hopefully this morning :) Install seems pretty straight forward.

I finally brought up a dev XI server to test this on though, just in case :)
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How do I know if NSCA is working, is there a log anywhere of something sending it information?
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yeah, we showing in SCOM the alerts being sent but I see nothing showing up in Unconfigured Objects. I have modified the nsca.cfg and remarked out the only from line. We are both using BLOWFISH encryption and both using the same password. I see nothing in /var/log/messages and no clue if this would be logged anywhere else. Any help on knowing if NSCA is working properly?
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Re: SCOM2Nagios

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You could check the nagios.log for potential logs as well. /var/log/messages is where nsca logs by default. Have you enabled the debug logging options for nsca? (change "debug=0" to "debug=1" in the nsca config file)
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