RDP Plugin able to login

[itbilling]

We have a need for a plugin to be able to RDP into servers using a username and password. we have used previous plugins (such as x224), but none of them are able to check if the desktop is available. We have clients that are getting hung at the welcome splash screen of Windows, and are not getting any kind of alert that RDP is not available (client gets to the log in screen and is able to put in their account information, but it never gets beyond the loading screen to the desktop). I apologize if such a plugin exists, but currently I was unable to find anything that would go beyond the check of a prompt for a username and password.

[lmiltchev]

Can you explain in more details what you are trying to accomplish?

Are you trying to connect to hosts that you are monitoring via RDP? In Nagios XI 2014R1.0+, when you connect to a host via RDP (Home->Host Detail->Quick Actions->Connect to ...).

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[itbilling]

I want a monitoring plugin that would be capable of logging in to test RDP more properly. Something that could be setup with a generic username and password that would log in, get to the desktop (maybe check if a file is there or something) then log back out.

[lmiltchev]

I see. Were you using this plugin before? I just tested it on Nagios XI 2014R1.3 and it seemed to work fine for me.

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[root@testbox libexec]# ./check_x224 -H 192.168.x.x
x224 OK. Connection setup time: 0.037533 sec.|time=0.037533s;3;50;0

[itbilling]

I am currently using that plugin, and it does work for testing if the RDP service is running, but it can't actually log in the server to test that the desktop can be reached.

[lmiltchev]

Yes, the "check_x224" plugin doesn't provide this functionality, but frankly I don't think this is even possible as you will need to use GUI.