Configuring Naemon

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Introduction

This document describes how to monitor local and Windows machines attributes, such as:

  • Memory Usage
  • CPU load
  • Disk Usage

Overview

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Monitoring services or attributes of a Windows machine requires the installation of an agent. This agent acts as a proxy between the Nagios plugin and the actual service or attribute of the Windows machine to be monitored . Without installing an agent on the Windows machine, Naemon would be unable to monitor local services or attributes of the Windows machine.

For this example, we will install NSClient ++ on the Windows machine and using the plugin check_nrpe that will communicate with the addon NSClient .

Steps

There are several steps you need to follow in order to monitor a new Windows machine:

  • Install a monitoring agent on the Windows machine
  • Create new host and service definitions for monitoring the Windows machine
  • Restart the Naemon Service