Nagios offers multiple ways of monitoring the Microsoft Windows workstations and servers. These vary from monitoring computers remotely and querying SNMP, to installing dedicated agents. Another very interesting feature of Nagios is its ability to effortlessly configure multiple machines in order to perform monitoring and to have a single place where the results are easily available.
In this chapter, you learned the following items:
check_nt
plugin and the NRPE protocolThe next chapter will talk about how to write your own Nagios plugins to monitor services that require customized checks.
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