How to securely monitor hyperv with nagios and nsclient altaro. This kb article addresses the following nrpe error. However this does add administrative overhead, if you wanted to change a threshold there is extra work involved, compared to making the change on the nagios server to send the required arguments. The alias commands are already predefined in nsclient. Anything else host names, ip addresses, mac addresses, etc. Monitor your entire it infrastructure quickly with the most powerful monitoring solution on the market. How to securely monitor hyperv with nagios and nsclient.
See a variety of open source frontends by the community. This is a grooving process before it was all manual but slowly we are getting a more automated installation process so hopefully this will keep improving in the future as well and some of the steps might go away. You will need to populate the fields with the values on the following page. Finally, you can create your own script and add it in the nsclient. Download the core monitoring engine and a basic web interface. Nsclient run on windows xp sp2, and serveur on freebsd 5. Monitoring osx with icinga nagios using nrpe funky penguin. Nsclient work fine, but i would like to use some custom commands. Nrpe configuring nrpe commands to accept arguments.
But the configuration can be stored elsewhere as will for instance registry is a great place on windows. Nsclient is an agent designed originaly to work with nagios but has since. Apr 17, 2014 monitoring osx with icinga nagios using nrpe 17 apr 2014 in howto on icinga, nagios, osx i have a fairly comprehensive icinga monitoring platform monitoring my various linux hosts, but one area which has been lacking until now is the monitoring of the osx mavericks mac mini that i use for a home media center. The config file must look like command line options, but the options can be on separate lines. Alternatively the following commands inside a command prompt will do these changes instead of. Static commands are a secure method of configuring nrpe, there is no way of changing what is execute on the remote host without changing the nrpe. Download the latest nagios core plugins package 50 plugins. Once connected, command execution and check results are exchanged. A full description of the capabilities is beyond the scope of this article, but i will focus on modules and nrpe server settings. How to monitor linux server using nagios core and nrpe unixmen. Static commands are a secure method of configuring nrpe, there is no way of changing what is execute on the remote host without changing the g file on the remote host. Unzip the file and copy the folder to remote windows server and.
You should be able to run any command defined in the nrpe. How to monitor remote windows machine using nagios on linux. Nrpe command your plugin not defined assumed knowledge. If you want more indepth information see the documentation instead. The linux nrpe agent must be installed on the target linux machine and configured before nagios core can monitor system metrics, services, processes, or performance data on the target machine. The following kb article contains an explanation of how nrpe works and may need to be referenced to completely understand the problem and solution that is provided here. Nrpe can also communicate with some of the windows agent addons, so you can execute scripts and check metrics on remote windows machines as well. A server that listens for incoming nrpe connection and processes incoming requests. I did test every single line, usually multiple times. When you setup nrpe were you able to succesfully run the check commands directly on the mac osx server. However this does add administrative overhead, if you wanted to change a threshold there is extra work involved, compared to making the change on the nagios server to send. In the end, i downgraded the nsclient to a previous version and it worked. The other major change is the configuration and command line syntax is somewhat different.
This is a sample plugin used to demonstrate how to make plugins. Also from the nagios server are you able to run the. For getting this to work, i am endebted to the following. Nsca client can be used both from command line and from queries to submit passive checks. Nrpe acts like a simple transport layer allowing remote execution. Installing the nagios xi mac osx agent nagios exchange. Data collection from windows performance counters with. This is a guide to installing the nrpe plugin service on os x. Nscp client can be used both from command line and from queries to check remote systes via nscp rest misc.
Client for connecting nativly to the op5 nortbound api. The installer creates a nagios user and group, which will be used to run the nrpe daemon. Nrpe works much like nrpe for unix if you are familiar with it and in short you can say it relays a plugin request to a remote server. That is the windows client allows different modes one of which is nrpe. Queries a quick reference for all available queries check commands in the checksystem module. Nsclient is an agent designed originally to work with nagios but has since evolved into a fully fledged monitoring agent which can be used with numerous monitoring tools like icinga, naemon, op5, neteye opsview etc. Of course, the module is enabled, all hosts are allowed. See additional projects that extend nagios core functionality. This document is intended for use by nagios xi administrators that would like to use nagios xi to monitor osx. Oct 15, 2017 static commands are a secure method of configuring nrpe, there is no way of changing what is execute on the remote host without changing the nrpe. Nagios will perform nrpe checks against your hyperv and windows server systems using a secured channel as you get started, be advised that this is a very long article. This document describes how to install the osx agent for monitoring with nagios xi. Mar 09, 2018 checksystem various system related checks, such as cpu load, process state, service state memory usage and pdh counters. You could see some commands which are already created in nsclient.
In addition to that, launchd is configured to redirect stdout and stderr to files in librarylogs nrpe. Download the latest rpm for aix into the tmp directory and run the following command. Mar 16, 2015 this article is intended for use by nagios administrators who wish to monitor linux servers with nagios core using the linux nrpe agent. The default here will differ is used in insecure mode or not. Most examples are intended to be used in this mode. The system should immediately start installing ncpa and all of its components. I went through the whole hassle of installing the system through all these make commands and then making an rpm so i could distribute nagios to about 45 machines, only to find out i need to go through the whole process again if i want the command arguments. You could look at the help of each command to specify which options you want to see in your supervision. It provides methods to execute nagios service checks on a windows host and report the results back to your nagios host.
A windows utility called nsclient is also available to accomplish the same thing on windows hosts. The configuration is usually in a file called nsclient. This means that for many common checks you do not need to configure any external scripts. This is the only official document we have on the subject.
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