Over the past week I have been flexing my monitoring skills again. Of course the landscape has changed since I worked on this a few years ago. Today, I am struggling with a commercial product, unnamed. Bloated, expensive, horrible GUI, and time consuming. I am sure it is a good product given that you have an entire staff dedicated to managing it.<\/p>\n
So, I went back to my roots and set up an Icinga instance. I have it fully working on a Linux box monitoring Windows hosts. Agentless. No more nsclient installs. I am using check_wmi_plus plugin for everything Windows. You can supply a wmi query string to the plugin for anything WMI. Here are some URLs:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/wiki.icinga.org\/display\/howtos\/check_wmi_plus<\/p>\n
some service definitions:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.edcint.co.nz\/checkwmiplus\/?q=nagiosservicedefinitions<\/p>\n
I am also monitoring out Java infrastructure. You need to make sure the java app is set up for remote jmx monitoring before this will work.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/exchange.nagios.org\/directory\/Plugins\/Java-Applications-and-Servers\/check_jmx\/details<\/p>\n
and some nice service defs and commands:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/kb.op5.com\/display\/HOWTOs\/Jboss+Monitoring+with+check_jmx<\/p>\n
Maybe I will get some time to write up a comprehensive faq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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