WMI Monitoring With Nagios

Capabilities

Nagios provides complete monitoring of Windows operating systems via WMI – including operating system metrics, service state, process state, file system usage, and more. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a technology that allows for agentless monitoring of Windows servers and workstations. Agentless technologies like WMI and SNMP allow IT administrator to deploy monitoring solutions without having to install agent software on each monitored system.

Benefits

Implementing effective WMI monitoring with Nagios offers the following benefits:

• Increased server, services, and application availability
• Fast detection of server and operating system failures
• Fast detection of service and application failures
• Agentless monitoring

Solutions

These Nagios solutions provide WMI monitoring capabilities and benefits:

• Nagios XI
• Nagios Core

Resources

• Windows WMI Monitoring Wizard
• WMI Plugins

Documentation

• Monitoring Windows With WMI
• Installing The WMI Client For Nagios XI

See Also

• Windows Monitoring
• Agentless Monitoring
• SNMP Monitoring