Monitoring windows machines nagios core documentation. Check windows time against ad or target check local time against a provided source or adautodetect or pool. Monitoring private services or attributes of a windows machine requires that you install an agent on it. It eliminates snmp needs and goes much beyond so called agentless schemes like wmi by allowing execution of scripts and programs locally and returning results. Sep 21, 2019 in this articles we are going to configure windows hosts to be monitor by nagios server. Nagios, the nagios logo, and nagios graphics are the servicemarks, trademarks, or registered trademarks owned by nagios enterprises. Hi all, i am a newcomer in this list and new with using the product. Monitoring windows server 2012 r2 nagios step two youtube. Monitor your entire it infrastructure quickly with the most powerful monitoring solution on the market. To run a script on a remote client, you will need to set up the nagios remote plugin executor nrpe as this tutorial is based on debian 9, i will show as an example how to install it, but you can find instructions for any distribution.
This allows you to monitor remote machine metrics disk usage, cpu load, etc. I am attempting to configure nagios nrpe for unix in the nagios monitoring server and nagios nrpe for windows in the monitored xp pc. Nov 11, 2019 after the successful installation of nrpe and nagios plugins, configure nrpe by opening its configuration file in etc nagios nrpe. You have to enter the display name of the service as it appears in windows service manager. It is a packaging of nagios nrpe addon, xinet, cygwin and a collection of windows specific nrpe plugins for monitoring cpu, disk, memory, eventlog, services. Im trying to configure nagios command for checking status of physical memory on a remote windows host using nrpe plugin. Nov 04, 2019 after the successful installation of nrpe and nagios plugins, configure nrpe by opening its configuration file in etc nagios nrpe. After modfying the configuration files and saving them, you will need to restart the npca services, so that changes can take effect. Use nagios for windows network monitoring and receive complete monitoring of microsoft windows desktop and server operating systems including system metrics, service states, process states, performance counters, event logs, applications iis, exchange, etc, services active directory, dhcp, etc and more.
Theres a specific check buit in nrpe client for windows service. Most of the configuration will be located in the c. Dec 14, 2017 monitoring windows server 2012 r2 nagios step two. Nagios nrpe on windows run 32 bit tool with 64 bit. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services. The nrpe daemon in the unix servers and the nrpe service in the windows pc appear both running. The nrpe daemon has always had the ability to perform checks using ipv6, assuming the plugin it runs supports it. Below is an overview of how to monitor windows server with nagios core. How to add windows and linux host to nagios server for. Nagios tutorial for it monitoring install and configure. Download the latest nagios core plugins package 50 plugins. Using nagios core and nrpe to monitor remote linux hosts. This powershell script is executed locally and compare time with w32tm tool.
Nagios define service for nrpe command in windows environment. Im using nagios core for monitoring a windows server. This document is intended for use by nagios xi administrators who want to setup custom monitoring of servers using nrpe or who have existing hosts. The nrpe addon is designed to allow you to execute nagios plugins on remote linuxunix machines. Nagios network monitoring software is a powerful, enterpriseclass host, server, application, and network monitoring tools. To monitor windows machines you will need to follow several steps and they are. Nagios could not complete ssl handshake server fault. The preferred monitoring type for a windows host is, as with other systems, nrpe. 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. Help build nagios exchange for yourself and the entire the nagios community by your nagios project to the site. Next we need to define a new host for the remote windows server that. Nov 22, 20 add linux host to nagios monitoring server. In this tutorial, we will learn to add linux hosts to nagios server with the help of nrpe.
Increase server, services, and application availability, detect network outages, failed process, services, and protocol failures before they affect your bottom line. On your nagios server, you need to install the nagiosnrpeplugin package. Nagios remote plugin executor nrpe is an agent used by nagios xi for communicating with remote hosts. See a variety of open source frontends by the community. Nrpe is the most common way to connect to nsclient. Windows server that are not dc cant be tested through ntp by default. Using nrpe for windows server view topic nagios support forum. Nagios is pleased to announce the release of nagios xi 5.
You can check cpu, memory and uptime without agent. For the activation of nrpe with arguments, the following text is added to the file c. This document is intended for use by nagios xi administrators who want to setup custom monitoring of servers using nrpe or who have existing hosts with the nrpe agent already installed and configured. In this articles we are going to configure windows hosts to be monitor by nagios server. Nrpe aka nagios remote plugin executor, allows us to monitor the local resources of a linux host on nagios monitoring server. By default nagios socket timeout is set to 10 seconds which means, if nagios does not get the reply from monitored host in 10 seconds it will. Download nsclient agent download the latest version of nsclient.
The nrpe daemon now has the ability to listen on ipv4 andor ipv6 addresses. For those not familiar with nrpe nagios remote plugin execution here is a quick. Nrpe acts like a simple transport layer allowing remote execution. See additional projects that extend nagios core functionality. Nrpe allows you to remotely execute nagios plugins on other linuxunix machines.
Add new host and service definitions for windows machine monitoring. Oct 23, 2019 the nagios monitoring tool comes in two primary versions. In the screenshot, nrpe has not been selected as it is not. How to add windows host to nagios monitoring server. This agent acts as a proxy between the nagios plugin that does the monitoring and the actual service or attribute of the windows machine.
This release includes improvements to the backend memory usage, improved stability of nagios xi, and overall better performance improvements. The former is a free, open source version, and the latter is a commercial version that offers additional features around graphs and reporting, capacity planning and more. Nagios xi provides complete monitoring of microsoft windows services. The nagios remote plugin executor nrpe allows your nagios enterprise monitoring server to communicate with the linux machines on your server to determine things like free disk space, cpu load, and detect possible issues that a simple ping cant determine. Note that all the configuration in this section is done on the. Its easy just create an account, login, and add a new listing. For completeness, here is a quick example to show how we can get the systems cpu load, making the following call from nagios. Unzip the file and copy the folder to remote windows server and install. The nagios monitoring tool comes in two primary versions. In order to allow access to nagios server, add a nagios server ip to the allowed host line no 81 in g located in etcnagiosg.
See detailed instructions on how to configure the npca agent on windows in our help documentation. Having added a windows host to the nagios server, lets add a linux host system. Nrdp edit nagios remote data processor nrdp is a nagios agent with a flexible data transport mechanism and processor. Nagios runs on nix hosts and can monitor windows, linuxunixbsd, netware, and network devices. This agent acts as a proxy between the nagios plugin that. Since these public resources are not usually exposed to external machines, an agent like nrpe must be. Remote hosts are operating systems like linux and windows. To monitor a linux host, we need to install an agent on the remote linux system called nrpe. Perform these steps to monitor windows server with nagios core. Nagios exchange the official site for hundreds of communitycontributed nagios plugins, addons, extensions, enhancements, and more. Without installing an agent on the windows box, nagios would be unable to monitor private services or attributes of the windows box. Nrpe for windows clients the nagios remote plugin executor nrpe allows your nagios enterprise monitoring server to communicate with the linux machines on your server to determine things like free disk space, cpu load, and detect possible issues that a simple ping cant determine. Designed to be fast, flexible, and rocksolid stable. Account disabled account expired account expiring account inactive locked.
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. How to add windows and linux host to nagios monitoring server. Configure nagios server for monitoring windows machine. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved. Apr 28, 2020 nagios network monitoring software is a powerful, enterpriseclass host, server, application, and network monitoring tools. Program build from the precedent check windows updates on nagios exchange by fooky and coxwal. Nagios is capable of monitoring the state of any windows service iis, exchange, dhcp, etc and alerting you when the service is stopped or crashed. How the nrpe agent receives requests and executes the plugins. This is indeed the package providing the nrpe daemon you need on any server to be monitored this way. 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. In most cases critical socket timeout after 10 seconds is a false positive alarm and means, that nagios failed to get the reply from the host being monitored in certain amount of time.
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