Check MD5 of files in a Windows Server

[ecarrasq]

System Info

Linux Distribution and version?

*Linux version 2.6.18-348.16.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Aug 21 04:49:45 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)


32 or 64bit?

32 bit

VMware Image or Manual Install of XI?

VMware Image

Are there specials configurations on your system, ie; is Gnome installed? Are you using a proxy? Are you using SSL?

Forced SSL on NagiosXi login web screen

Nagios Xi version: Nagios XI 2012R2.4

Issue:

Is there a way to check the MD5 of a file in a windows server? I've looked in the Nagios Exchange, but the plugins I've seen are only checking for md5 changes on linux servers. If there is a way, please provide step by step instructions.

Thanks,
Eddie

[tmcdonald]

If there is not a plugin available, you will need to write one unfortunately. I do not know of a way within Windows to natively view MD5. You could always download a third-party app, write a wrapper file to run it, and then display the information in a Nagios-friendly format. You would then need to run this via NRPE.