About NSClient++

NSClient++ (or nscp as I tend to call it nowadays) aims to be a simple yet powerful and secure monitoring daemon for windows operating systems. It is built for Nagios but nothing in the daemon is actually Nagios specific and could probably with little or no change be integrated in any monitoring software that supports running user tools for polling.

The structure of the daemon is a simple NT service that loads a plug-ins to an internal stack. The plug-ins can then request data (poll performance data) from the other plug-ins through the internal stack. As of now there are a few plug-ins for basic performance data collection. For details of supplied modules see wiki:CheckCommands.

NSClient++ can be extended in two ways you can either write your own plug-in to or you can execute an external script (as of now batch/exe/*). Writing your own plug-in is of course the most powerful way but requires knowledge of C++ or other language which can produce DLLs and interface with regular C programs (generally every other language available, but there is some simple API helpers for C/C++ as well as descriptions).

As for checking with NSClient++ I would recommend NRPE as it is a lot more flexible than check_nt. But NSClient has full support for check_nt and if there is an interest I could probably add support for check_nt from nc_net.

Status

As people have noticed I haven't update this in a few months, not uncommon for me as I often have lot of things going on.

I will try to sort through the mails and issues I have received during the past months and in an orderly fashion try to fix them and hopefully have a new version out in not so long away fixing major issues, and a bit longer off fixing minor issues. The main problem right now I that I'm working on my ​gallery software that will become my master thesis as well as trying to study for my final exams so time is not something I have a lot of. I have also switched jobs and no longer use NSCPlus myself so it will be "hard" for me to do "quality" beta testing...

Anyways, the gist of it: Hopefully new version in a week or so fixing major issues, and slightly more activity during fall... (After the 23:d of October when I write my exam I will have a bit more time...

Help wanted

Bug reports!!''' If you have outstanding issues feel free to report again, I'm going to go through the backlog but a reminder is always nice...

Support this project

If you like and use this program feel free to help out in any way either by updating the documentation (this WIKI) add examples ideas and such. Or help out with writing code and/or patches and such or even if you are so inclined send a few ​$$ :)

Latest News

Se the blog section for news.

Download

NSClient++ can be downloaded from the source forge page ​http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=131326

versions 0.2.5i and 0.2.5i2 of client are not working, try 0.2.5h ​http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nscplus/NSClient++-0.2.5j.zip Hopefully (?) the "j" build should work, if not let me know ASAP!

Thanks

• Johnny Wetlaufer for the nice logo
• Everyone who reports bugs!

About this page

Note: this is not a web site it is a WIKI that means *anyone* can edit it so if you click edit you have not "so h4x0r3ed this b0x3n" you have simply made a fool out of yourself (unless of course you have contributed to the page in which case I'm just thankful :)....

Feel free to edit/make corrections and add content to this page. I hope that the documentation can improve as a community effort. It would especially be nice to have some real-world check command setup from Nagios.

The site is using wiki:Trac