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Best way to monitor a single windows server?
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:10 am
by msimmons
I really only need something to alert me when my Avg Disk Queue Length stays high for a duration of time. Does Nagios need to be installed on a separate server?
Re: Best way to monitor a single windows server?
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:13 am
by lmiltchev
You can add the Avg. Disk Queue Length performance counter on your windows box if you haven't done it, yet. Then run the Windows Server Wizard. In the Step 3 of the wizard, you can specify which performance counters you would like to monitor. There are some examples that you can use on this page.
Re: Best way to monitor a single windows server?
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:34 pm
by msimmons
Yes but where do I actually install Nagios? " Nagios XI can only be installed on a RHEL or CentOS Linux server. " It sounds like I would need a separate machine? Is that correct?
Re: Best way to monitor a single windows server?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:10 am
by slansing
Nagios XI needs to be installed on one of those linux distrobutions. You can use a VM loading program to "play" one of our pre-configured virtual machines, or install from source as noted above. These options are all listed here, and there are basic installation guides available:
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... loads/main
Let us know if you need further help.
Re: Best way to monitor a single windows server?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:50 am
by msimmons
Ah, ok. It won't work out for my situation then.
Thanks!
Re: Best way to monitor a single windows server?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 10:00 am
by slansing
Yes, Nagios is not a Windows based software package, though it can be run from a Windows system as I had mentioned. Leaving open for a reply if one is warranted.