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I am using the latest NSClient and Cacti 0.8.6c. Clone NSClient++ From GitHub Type cd /var/tmp and press Enter Type git clone -recursive and press Enter Wait while all of these files are downloaded Compile NSClient++ Type mkdir build and press Enter Type cd build and press Enter Type cmake.

Long story short is I'm finding information that using Cacti with NSClient is the way to go and very doable, but I'm not finding any solid working examples namely for CPU utilization monitoring. I also found some examples of querying for COUNTER instead of CPULOAD to monitor individual processors (for multi-processor machines). app iSH is available on the app store and runs Linux via x86 emulation.

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The cpu one won't work, yet the memory one will. Below describes the settings needed to connect with the NSClient android app.

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The zip file that Caliban provided in this cacti thread near the bottom was close, but not quite there. Bear in mind, I'm not good at setting up templates, so I have been looking for graph / data templates as well as the perl scripts to drive the NSClient queries. I have found some information for some graphs, and some work great-others not at all. With that in mind, I'm curious if anyone here has experience using both Cacti and NSClient. Seems that is what is encouraged when monitoring a Windows machine from Linux I was able to setup Cacti to monitor CPU utilization on one of our servers with SNMP, but if I can't expect it to be totally reliable, I'd like to go the NSClient route. I know it's possible to use Cacti + SNMP to monitor CPU usage, but from a lot of reading on the Cacti forum it seems that SNMP isn't all that reliable. This system uses SNMP for network data gathering. ITRS OP5 Monitor An infrastructure monitor that includes IT business process management. So far I have found some pretty good information on the Cacti forum, but not enough to complete the deal for me. Nagios XI An infrastructure monitoring package that is based on the free Nagios Core and has an SNMP monitoring system. So far, the best answer to this that I have found is to use my linux machine which has Cacti installed and use it in conjunction with NSClient on the servers we want to track. Also, the address value should point to the IP address of your Windows host.I am working to monitor the CPU usage of some Windows 2000 servers over a period of time (about a week) to get a trend analysis of roughly how much CPU utilization our various servers use. $ sudo nano /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfgĬreate the following host definition entry and make sure to customize host_name and alias values. Switch back to Ubuntu’s Nagios server and open windows.cfg configuration file. NSClient Installation in Windows Adding Windows Host to Nagios Ubuntu Server The installation process should take less than a minute to complete. Include the IP address of your Ubuntu Nagios server.

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Install NSClient in Windows Choose NSClient Setup in Windows Configure NSClient in Windows Next, run the msi installer to launch its installation wizard and follow the installation prompts to set up the required installation configuration. Installing NSClient++ Agent on Windows Hostįrom your Windows host machine, visit the NSClient download page to retrieve a stable copy of the NSClient++ agent application. Restarting/reloading Nagios service daemon.Adding Windows host and service definitions to Nagios server.Adding Windows host monitoring configurations to Nagios server.NSClient++ addon installation on the Windows host.The summary of steps needed to remotely add and monitor Windows host via Nagios server include the following: They include memory usage, Disk Usage, and CPU load.įor us to remotely monitor such Windows OS services from an Ubuntu hosted Nagios server, the Windows machine needs to first accommodate the NSClient++ addon, which acts as a Windows-to-Nagios proxy, making it possible for Nagios and Windows to communicate via the check_nt plugin originating from the Nagios Monitoring Server. Just like the Linux operating system architecture, the Windows OS also embraces important OS services critical to the performance of your machine.

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Part 3 and the final portion of this article series will walk us through adding a remote Windows host to the Nagios server.

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In Part 1 and Part 2 of this Nagios server article series, we managed to learn how to install Nagios on an Ubuntu server and add a remote Linux host to the Nagios server for easy monitoring of its defined services.

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