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Hi All,

I have a requirement to monitor different parameters for AD.
I have gone through below links . But these are incomplete so as to what parameters to be passed or how to setup the configurations at Nagios/destination server side.

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... ck/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... ck/details

Could you please suggest which is the best plugin to monitor AD and what all parameters of AD can be monitored through Nagios.
Thanks.

Nagios can monitor anything that has a plugin. Which is the 'best' is usually a matter of what one's requirements are.

Frequently a plugins(like the ones you've linked to) will require that it be run on the remote host and not on the XI server. This can be done using agents like NSClient++ or NRPE on the remote host. Nagios then runs these plugins using check_ncpa or check_nrpe to connect to the host, execute the plugins, and return values to the Nagios server.

If you're not using either NSClient++ or NCPA at the moment then I would suggest using NCPA. Both agents can run scripts on remote machines and return the results to Nagios. The steps for NSClient++ are covered in:

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=528​

Instructions for installing NSClient++ to work with Nagios are found in:​

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... s-XI.pdf​​
Steps for installing NCPA are found in:

https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/getting-started.php​

To run a script with NCPA you would need to copy it to the plugins directory found in the installation path(usually c:\program files (x86)\Nagios\NCPA\plugins) and then run a command like:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py -H your_windows_server_ip_address -t your_windows_server_ncpa_token -P 5693 -M 'plugins/resourcecheck.ps1​'​
​
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... -722.html​ has some more information on running scripts with NCPA.

Thanks @ cdienger.

So do you suggest me to go with the plugins which I have listed for monitoring of AD?

Please suggest if there is any other plugin which could monitor different parameters of AD.

Thanks,

Yes, use these plugins if they're able to monitor the parameters you'd like.

There is also the check_ldap plugin found in /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ldap. This plugin is what the LDAP wizard uses:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... h-LDAP.pdf

Thanks @cdienger

Able to execute few LDAP checks successfully.
Please close the thread.

Glad to hear!