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. On your nagios server, you need to install the nagiosnrpeplugin package. Designed to be fast, flexible, and rocksolid stable. Dec 14, 2017 monitoring windows server 2012 r2 nagios step two. 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. Monitoring hosts using nrpe this document describes how to monitor hosts with nagios xi by using nrpe. The main reason for doing this is to allow nagios to monitor local resources like cpu load, memory usage, etc. 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. 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. 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.
Nagios nrpe on windows run 32 bit tool with 64 bit. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them a second time when the problem has been resolved. Unzip the file and copy the folder to remote windows server and install. Hi all, i am a newcomer in this list and new with using the product. If you want more indepth information see the documentation instead. Perform these steps to monitor windows server with nagios core. Apr 28, 2020 nagios network monitoring software is a powerful, enterpriseclass host, server, application, and network monitoring tools. This allows you to monitor remote machine metrics disk usage, cpu load, etc. Nagios runs on nix hosts and can monitor windows, linuxunixbsd, netware, and network devices. Nagios tutorial for it monitoring install and configure.
You have to enter the display name of the service as it appears in windows service manager. Nagios xi provides complete monitoring of microsoft windows services. 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. Using nagios core and nrpe to monitor remote linux hosts. You can check cpu, memory and uptime without agent. The nagios monitoring tool comes in two primary versions.
Program build from the precedent check windows updates on nagios exchange by fooky and coxwal. Im using nagios core for monitoring a windows server. 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. Nov 04, 2019 after the successful installation of nrpe and nagios plugins, configure nrpe by opening its configuration file in etc nagios nrpe. 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.
Without installing an agent on the windows box, nagios would be unable to monitor private services or attributes of the windows box. In the screenshot, nrpe has not been selected as it is not. Having added a windows host to the nagios server, lets add a linux host system. 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. Nrpe aka nagios remote plugin executor, allows us to monitor the local resources of a linux host on nagios monitoring server. 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. This is indeed the package providing the nrpe daemon you need on any server to be monitored this way.
Since these public resources are not usually exposed to external machines, an agent like nrpe must be. The preferred monitoring type for a windows host is, as with other systems, nrpe. Oct 23, 2019 the nagios monitoring tool comes in two primary versions. Nov 11, 2019 after the successful installation of nrpe and nagios plugins, configure nrpe by opening its configuration file in etc nagios nrpe. 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. How the nrpe agent receives requests and executes the plugins. Windows monitoring with nagios nagios for windows performance monitoring. Sep 21, 2019 in this articles we are going to configure windows hosts to be monitor by nagios server. Next we need to define a new host for the remote windows server that. 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. Add new host and service definitions for windows machine monitoring. Configure nagios server for monitoring windows machine. Nagios remote plugin executor nrpe is an agent used by nagios xi for communicating with remote hosts. This agent acts as a proxy between the nagios plugin that does the monitoring and the actual service or attribute of the windows machine.
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. Nrpe acts like a simple transport layer allowing remote execution. Remote hosts are operating systems like linux and windows. See a variety of open source frontends by the community. Increase server, services, and application availability, detect network outages, failed process, services, and protocol failures before they affect your bottom line. See detailed instructions on how to configure the npca agent on windows in our help documentation. This agent acts as a proxy between the nagios plugin that. To monitor a linux host, we need to install an agent on the remote linux system called nrpe.
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. How to add windows and linux host to nagios server for. Nagios, the nagios logo, and nagios graphics are the servicemarks, trademarks, or registered trademarks owned by nagios enterprises. Check windows time against ad or target check local time against a provided source or adautodetect or pool. Nrdp edit nagios remote data processor nrdp is a nagios agent with a flexible data transport mechanism and processor. The nrpe daemon in the unix servers and the nrpe service in the windows pc appear both running. 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. In this articles we are going to configure windows hosts to be monitor by nagios server. Nagios exchange the official site for hundreds of communitycontributed nagios plugins, addons, extensions, enhancements, and more.
Monitoring windows server 2012 r2 nagios step two youtube. Nagios is pleased to announce the release of nagios xi 5. This powershell script is executed locally and compare time with w32tm tool. Monitor your entire it infrastructure quickly with the most powerful monitoring solution on the market. Nagios define service for nrpe command in windows environment. Its easy just create an account, login, and add a new listing.
How to add windows host to nagios monitoring server. For completeness, here is a quick example to show how we can get the systems cpu load, making the following call from nagios. See additional projects that extend nagios core functionality. Nrpe is the most common way to connect to nsclient. Nagios network monitoring software is a powerful, enterpriseclass host, server, application, and network monitoring tools. Im trying to configure nagios command for checking status of physical memory on a remote windows host using nrpe plugin. The nrpe daemon now has the ability to listen on ipv4 andor ipv6 addresses. The nrpe daemon has always had the ability to perform checks using ipv6, assuming the plugin it runs supports it. Help build nagios exchange for yourself and the entire the nagios community by your nagios project to the site. Below is an overview of how to monitor windows server with nagios core. Monitoring windows machines nagios core documentation. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting services for servers, switches, applications and services.
In this tutorial, we will learn to add linux hosts to nagios server with the help of nrpe. Most of the configuration will be located in the c. Monitoring private services or attributes of a windows machine requires that you install an agent on it. How to add windows and linux host to nagios monitoring server. Theres a specific check buit in nrpe client for windows service. To monitor windows machines you will need to follow several steps and they are. Nrpe allows you to remotely execute nagios plugins on other linuxunix machines. The nrpe addon is designed to allow you to execute nagios plugins on remote linuxunix machines. Note that all the configuration in this section is done on the. 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. For the activation of nrpe with arguments, the following text is added to the file c. For those not familiar with nrpe nagios remote plugin execution here is a quick.
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