Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

[Tim Post <tim.post@netkinetics.net>]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:07 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:12 +0200, Ali Jawad wrote:
> > I wish I could do that..but honestly the server are remotely located
> > with modest internet connections and i do not want to use the limited
> > bandwidth Ive got with monitoring..and I would prefer not to run an X
> > server on the system unless absolutely necessary and to just run
> > GKRELLM ..well I dont see that it is the thing to do
> 
> I understand about the bandwidth, but the X server would not be running
> on the server.
> 

http://dev1.netkinetics.net/xmlpulse/

Help yourself. Just run it via cron and deposit stdout someplace the
win2k server can get to (lighttpd would be ideal on a non standard
port).

Its as easy as just parsing XML. Very much like phpsysinfo, but 7k to
fork vs 12-15 MB for php. A little more gentle than NRPE for the same
intended purpose. 

Good for basic monitoring of vitals, easily modified to do more. 

HTH
-Tim