Nagios Support Forum

Hi all,

I have a very light weight nrpe Windows service running on a server and am using the basic old NRPE_NT plug-in pack from 2006 to monitor CPU, Memory, Disk.
I've recently installed the nagiosgraph add-on and found that the old NRPE_NT basic plug-in pack does not support performance metrics reporting for nagiosgraph.


Looking on Nagios Exchange site, I actually can't seem to find a modern NRPE Windows basic plug-in pack that supports performance metrics. The nearest I can see is the plug-in pack on the itefix site (check_pdm) however it requires cygwin to be installed on the Windows server which I'm reluctant to do.


Any suggestions for a standalone Windows executable NRPE light weight plug-in pack that supports CPU, Memory (Physical and Page file), Disk (Space and I/O) checking that also gives back performance metrics compatible with nagiosgraph?

Cheers!

I would look at using check_nrpe in NSclient++ vs check_nt, as it will produce the performance data. A lot of configuration examples for it can be found here - http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/common-checks (see pages below for specifics, CPU/Disk/Memory/Network)

Hi rkennedy, thanks for replying.

I was looking at nsclient too but it seems you have to install the full nsclient service to use those nice plug-ins since they are dll's rather than standalone exe's.

Ideally I'd prefer to continue using the tiny nrpe service app I have running and was looking for just the plug-in's like those found in nsclient. Are there any standalone plug-ins available like those found in nsclient or is switching to the full nsclient service the only way to go?

Realistically, you probably want the full client, but NSClient is GPL (https://docs.nsclient.org/license.html), so you could strip it down.

They also specifically mention on their site adding feature requests at https://github.com/mickem/nscp/issues. I'm sure you are not the only person looking for something more light-weight.

Thanks all for the replies. I'll investigate that over the weekend.

Fantastic! We're here 9am to 5pm Monday - Thursday (Friday 9am-2pm), so we'll get back to it on Monday. And...if you get to it sooner, great!