[Nagiosplug-help] FW: looking for a WMI Memory plugin

[Don Cathey]

-----Original Message-----
From: Brock Kuhse [mailto:brock at kuhsefamily.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 9:23 PM
To: 'Don Cathey'
Subject: RE: [Nagiosplug-help] looking for a WMI Memory plugin

Hi Don,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagiosplug-help-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-
> help-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jessica Kohlbecker
> Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:44 PM
> To: Nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] looking for a WMI Memory plugin
> 
> I am a bit new into the Nagios world, and I have looked everywhere to
> find a wmi pl script that will check a windows 2003 server's available
> memory and I just can't find one.  

SNMP is a problem for us too, so I wrote a simple perl script to call
wbemcli that connects to an installed instance of the OpenPegasus WMIMapper
on a Windows server, which, in turn, connects to WMI on the target machine
and returns the necessary information.  It took a little work to get it
running, but it wasn't too bad.  The connection is encrypted, so we can even
connect to Windows servers across the Internet when we don't have a suitable
proxy available.

I don't mind sharing the script, but it was written for internal use and, as
such, is not even close to user friendly.  I'll be there are at least a
dozen different ways you could break it, but it works great for us.  Just
let me know if you're interested.

- Brock