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Nagwin A complete Nagios implementation for Windows
Installing Nagwin ^
Nagwin uses several packages to acheive Nagios functionality on Windows, including lig
Once you download the installer, unzip and run the resultant Nagwin_1.2.0_Installer ex
unless you would rather use an existing service account. The password that is prepopu
Conguring the Nagios process ^
Assuming you want Nagios to start automatically when your server starts, you should r
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By default, the Nagios admin account (nagiosadmin) has the password nagios and tha
1 htpasswd2 -b /etc/nginx/htpasswd nagiosadmin <em>your_password_here</em>
You can create additional accounts but thats what we will use for now. You can also ch
server block. Now change the listen directive from 80 to whatever you desire.
Conguring Nagios to monitor a host ^
Now the real work begins. Lets assume that our Nagios server is located at 10.1.1.14 in
the hosts.cfg le in the \etc\nagios\nagwin directory). Using our example above, the h
1 # Define a host for the local machine
2 define host{
3 use windows-server,host-pnp
4 host_name fileserver
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5 alias fileserver
6 address 10.1.1.10
7 }
Note: alias is simply what Nagios calls the host, and in many cases it is appropriate to h
Thats it! Now we need to start all of our Nagwin services (there are four) in services.ms
Once you have started these services, navigate to http://localhost:PORT_NUMBER and l

allows systems administrators to check the health of hosts as well as connectivity.
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Anon
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It looks as if the Nagwin project has been discontinued. Or at least the installers and the source
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Anon, the Nagwin project still exists. The tool isnt just free anymore.
John (http://www.complex.ie)
4 years ago
You may nd it better o building a centos VMware to host the ocial nagios server platform a
The beauty of Nagios is that you can write your own plug-in to monitoring anything we have a
Bill Campbell
4 years ago
But no trial option? Ive heard all about Nagios but always on Linux. We are a windows only sho
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Dear All,
I could not nd NAGWIN Installation les. Does anybody has an access to them. I am looking fo
All help is highly appreciated..
romulus
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you can nd it here
http://mirror.transact.net.au/sourceforge/s/project/se/sereds/Nagios/ (http://mirror.transact.n
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A free version of Nagwin with Nagios Core, PNP4Nagios and RRDTool is now available: https://w
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Kent C.
2 years ago
Excellent Guide! I have used this and was able to quickly get online and setup a basic SNMP usi
Im using the free one and this worked pretty well, easy to follow. Keep up the great work.
EPMD
2 months ago
Hi;
Ive managed to add the jmxeval.bat for the jmx checks. But I am getting an exception when I
C:\Nagwin_x64\plugins>check_jmxeval.bat C:\Nagwin_x64\etc\jmxeval-threadcount.xm
l
Exception in thread main java.lang.ClassCastException: com.adahas.tools.jmxeva
l.model.impl.Eval cannot be cast to com.adahas.tools.jmxeval.model.impl.JMXEval
at com.adahas.tools.jmxeval.App.execute(App.java:50)
at com.adahas.tools.jmxeval.App.main(App.java:110)
If there is a better way to add the jmx checks to Nagwin please share.
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