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Philippe
Asked: 2021-03-09 03:06:56 +0800 CST

Shinken probe on windows server but windows server on VPN network (monitoring server outside VPN)

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I need to monitore a windows server with skinken, but this server is accessible with a VPN connection (with strong security, done by an electronic tool and human action).

The monitoring server is not connected to this VPN so I search a solution to receive monitoring from the Windows server without VPN connection.

Is it possible for the windows server to send result of probe directly to Shinken ? I wan to monitor this kind of informations:

  • hardware data (cpu, ram, space free, etc.)
  • status of apache server and some other services

Best regards, Philippe

windows vpn monitoring nagios shinken

1 Answers

  1. Is it possible for the windows server to send result of probe directly to Shinken ?

    If you mean that your Windows server can connect to the monitoring server without VPN, but not the other way around, then it might be possible. Depending on Shinken (which I have never used), there may be a way so send in passive check results via, for example, an HTTP API.

    Looking at this documentation however, it doesn't mention anything about passive checks over API.

    You may want to have a look at this article instead, I don't really understand it since I don't know what Shinken terms like "Arbiter" or "Receiver" is, but yes, Nagios can accept passive results as long as you have a way to submit them.

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