Windows Service Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of Microsoft Windows services. Nagios is capable of monitoring the state of any Windows service (IIS, Exchange, DHCP, etc) and alerting you when the service is stopped or crashed.

Benefits

Implementing effective Windows service monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of network outages and protocol failures
• Fast detection of failed services and batch jobs

Restarting a Windows Service with NRPE in Nagios

How to restart services in Windows using Nagios XI with NSClient++/NRPE, which allows you to automate the process of starting, stopping and restarting Window Services.

Restarting a Windows Service with NRPE in Nagios

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide Windows service monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios XI
• Nagios Core

Resources

• Windows Server Monitoring Wizard
• Windows Desktop Monitoring Wizard
• Windows WMI Monitoring Wizard

Documentation

• Monitoring Windows With WMI

Videos

• Monitoring A Windows Server
• Monitoring A Windows Desktop

See Also

• Windows Monitoring
• Windows Process Monitoring