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best way to monitor the Windows Servers without using agent
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:06 pm
by ikekim
I'm testing Nagios XI so I have version XI 5.4.7 installed and want to monitor Windows Server 2012 R2 machines.
Installing the agent is likely not allowed in our environment, so what would be my next best way to monitor the Windows Servers?
thanks,
ik
Re: best way to monitor the Windows Servers without using ag
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 2:12 pm
by mcapra
WMI:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
Or the native SNMP agent:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... -snmp.html
I prefer WMI. The plugin available for WMI is quite modular and WMI itself was built specifically as
Management
Instrumentation for
Windows machines.
Re: best way to monitor the Windows Servers without using ag
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 3:03 pm
by dwhitfield
mcapra wrote:The plugin available for WMI is quite modular and WMI itself was built specifically as Management Instrumentation for Windows machines.
I'm not picking a side, but the counter argument above is that SNMP has been around a long time and is cross platform. Which option is better is really going to depend on what people in your environment know, or may need to use in the future. If you are a Windows shop and it seems you always will be, I see very little reason not to use WMI.
Re: best way to monitor the Windows Servers without using ag
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2017 10:24 pm
by ikekim
We have more AIX & Redhat than Windows.
I need to avoid installs like agents and will need to monitor using the most firewall friendly method.
For example, in our environment SSH is definitely firewall friendly because we allow that traffic vs the ports the agents use because I would have to request to have those ports to be opened.
Therefore, I think WMI would be easier than SNMP, since I would have to install SNMP client & then config?
What do you think?
thanks,
ik
Re: best way to monitor the Windows Servers without using ag
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2017 7:54 am
by scottwilkerson
ikekim wrote:We have more AIX & Redhat than Windows.
I need to avoid installs like agents and will need to monitor using the most firewall friendly method.
For example, in our environment SSH is definitely firewall friendly because we allow that traffic vs the ports the agents use because I would have to request to have those ports to be opened.
Therefore, I think WMI would be easier than SNMP, since I would have to install SNMP client & then config?
What do you think?
thanks,
ik
Correct, generally WMI requires the least to setup.