<div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi Ingo,<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks for the important information regarding cscript.exe.</SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am not interested to use the NRPE daemon as it is necessary to run continuously on the Windows machine. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have written custom scripts in Perl which runs on the windows machine to check the directory and file existence and reports to the Nagios server accordingly. Currently I am using the NRPE
daemon to run this script and is working fine.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am puzzled how Sitescope uses the NetBIOS information/credentials to login to the remote windows machine and retrieves data. I tried to search details on google but failed to get any.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your help will be valuable for me to add a remote service check to Nagios w/o using NRPE.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sameer <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Ingo Lantschner
<ingo.lists@vum.at></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>Am 09.01.2007 um 11:29 schrieb Sameer:<BR><BR>> Is there any facility/tool/command available for running the <BR>> command on the Windows machine which could provide the result back <BR>> to Nagios server.<BR>You can use NRPE, since there are nrpe-services for Windows <BR>available. From NRPE you can launch VBS-Scripts (using <BR>Windowsscripting Host, cscript.exe namely) even on remote-hosts, who <BR>do not have NRPE localy installed. Seems to work in small <BR>environments. I would not suggest it for larger LAN/WANs. Better to <BR>go with SNMP there, which can be checked directly - it is more stable.<BR><BR>HTH Ingo.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Ingo Lantschner<BR>Vienna/Austria<BR>Mob (+43-664) 143 84 18<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam?
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