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Configuring Nagios to monitor a Windows service

I am running Nagios 3.x on a RHEL box. It's able to do the default ntcheck stuff like CPU utilization and see the NSClient++ version, but I can't verify that a specific service is running (shows up as unknown). Here's the entry in the host's cfg file for the service:

Code:

define service{

        use                    generic-service

        host_name              gsovmacs01

        service_description    Cisco Secure WWW Server

        check_command          check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l CSAdmin

        }

The weird thing is I *can* telent into the Windows box on the Nagios client port and when I open the NSCLient++ command injector and do the CheckServiceState for csadmin it comes back happy. What am I missing?

Quote:

Cisco Secure WWW Server

WARNING 07-29-2008 10:42:07 0d 0h 52m 12s 4/4 CSAdmin: Unknown

For anyone interested it's because I'm stupid :)

I've been cp the template file and then doing a %s/oldname/newname/g on it...but never changed the IP address. So suprisingly enough the "error" I was getting about the service not being found was actually accurate. All is now well, except I need to figure out how to stop my default group from showing up in the CGI.

What does the -d parameter do? and can i have it check a single service such as Oracle instead of using SHOWALL?

Running the check_nt with --help (via the CLI) will give you a good explanation of what to use it for.

You get a lot more flexibility using NRPE rather than check_nt. Check out the NSClient++ website for more info.