import cross platform nagios script (no ssh)

Hi,

I have a nagios script written in perl that checks a service using UDP communication. It can check the service on a Windows or Linux host and there is no need to upload the script via SSH. It should simply execute from the solarwinds server with the host name of the server to check passed in as a script argument. This seems very simple but I cannot find a solarwinds monitor that can do it. The Linux and Nagios script monitors all try to upload a script via SSH which is unnecessarily limiting. It also means Windows servers cannot be monitored with a Nagios script. Is there any solution to simply run some script directly from the SolarWinds server while passing in the host name of a remote host to monitor? This is the basic functionality of Nagios and it seems odd to me SolarWinds APM, for the price it costs, cannot do this.

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aLTeReGo

The Nagios Script Monitor in SAM was specifically designed with Linux/Unix in mind. That doesn't however mean that your script won't work. In theory you can use any Linux host to execute the script against, essentially acting as a proxy for the monitor. Another alternative is with some very minor changes to the output format you can leverage the same script as a Windows Script Monitor, which fully supports Perl.

chad.toland

aLTeReGo,

Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure you've understood my question. The Windows, Linux, and Nagios custom script monitors all appear to rely on copying the monitoring script to the remote host and executing it remotely. However, I have a Perl script that performs a check using a network socket, sort of like the SNMP monitor, so I don't want it copied to the remote host. I just need to set up my script as a monitor and have solar winds call it for the hosts I assign it to monitor (no remote execution). It is much simpler than copying scripts all over the network with stored credentials. Can SolarWinds do this?

aLTeReGo

The WIndows Script Monitor executes scripts locally on the SAM server only. They are not copied to a remote host.

chad.toland

The documentation link you provided indicates the monitor credentials must allow access to the remote host and the script example (counting files) suggests a script that is running remotely. I will try this and see if it works. Perl is not installed on the remote Windows hosts I need to check so it will fail if it runs remotely.

Is there a solution to run this against a Linux host without remote execution?