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Hi Guys,

Can Nagios XI monitoring server without installing any agent in OS level?

Thanks.

Yes it can ... but it depends.

Windows servers
You can monitor it with SNMP or WMI ... keep in mind that you'll need to configure these components first.

Linux Server:
You can monitor it with SNMP ... keep in mind that you'll need to configure these components first.
Or check_by_ssh which connects without an agent, but you'll need the plugins deployed on these boxes.

A lot of guides on how to get this working can be found in the XI Help:
Help > Administrator Guide

Box293 wrote:Yes it can ... but it depends.

Windows servers
You can monitor it with SNMP or WMI ... keep in mind that you'll need to configure these components first.

Linux Server:
You can monitor it with SNMP ... keep in mind that you'll need to configure these components first.
Or check_by_ssh which connects without an agent, but you'll need the plugins deployed on these boxes.

A lot of guides on how to get this working can be found in the XI Help:
Help > Administrator Guide

Let say monitor without snmp? Is it possible?
My customer running servers in VMware vcloud, i want to monitor their VM without installing any agent or snmp.. Because we do not have their login access to OS level. Possible?

igsadmin wrote:Let say monitor without snmp? Is it possible?
My customer running servers in VMware vcloud, i want to monitor their VM without installing any agent or snmp.. Because we do not have their login access to OS level. Possible?

What type of servers? Windows? Linux?

Box293 wrote:

igsadmin wrote:Let say monitor without snmp? Is it possible?
My customer running servers in VMware vcloud, i want to monitor their VM without installing any agent or snmp.. Because we do not have their login access to OS level. Possible?

What type of servers? Windows? Linux?

Windows server..

Windows can me monitored without an agent using check_wmi_plus.

Here's some documentation about it:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... For_XI.pdf

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ng_WMI.pdf

Box293 wrote:Windows can me monitored without an agent using check_wmi_plus.

Here's some documentation about it:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... For_XI.pdf

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ng_WMI.pdf

Thanks.. Will try it out...

What if the machine is running in Linux? Is there any solution for Linux?

Thanks.

Box293 wrote:Or check_by_ssh which connects without an agent, but you'll need the plugins deployed on these boxes.

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ng_SSH.pdf