How to install NSClient++ 0.3.8 on Windows 2008 x64 RC2

I am finally back to work on setting up the Windows 2008 64-bit machine to generate the 64-bit version of Firefox.

At Mozilla's Release Engineering we use Nagios to monitor our build and test machines (among other systems).
The NRPE addon (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) is designed to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on remote Linux/Unix machines.
In the case of Windows we use NSClient++ which can be used for Nagios as its NRPE for Linux/Unix machines.

Therefore, for the Windows 64-bit machine I installed NSClient++ as we do for the Windows 32-bit machines (bhearsum did this long time ago and gave me a heads up from what he remembered - also thanks to ravi for checking things with me).

Enough background and let me show you what I did.

• Download NSClient++ 0.3.8 for 64-bit machines
• I am going to use the installer as it adds the firewall exceptions for me.
• Start the installer and choose these settings:
• "Enable common check plugins", "Enable nsclient server (check_nt)", "Enable NRPE Server (check_nrpe)", "Enable WMI checks"
• Do not start the service and finish the installation
• Rename C:\Program Files\NSClient++\NSC.ini as NSC.original.ini
• Checkout mozilla/tools/nagios and copy NSC.ini to C:\Program Files\NSClient++
• I am reusing the NSC.ini in our Win2k3 machines
• In fact, the selected settings in the installation have no effect since we replace the NSC.ini but I thought you might be interested on having a rough idea on what to do yourself.

To check that everything went well do the following (from this documentation):

• Run "C:\Program Files\NSClient++\nsclient++.exe" /test
• We are going to run the following two checks (see at bottom of this post for output):
• CheckDriveSize ShowAll MinWarnFree=10% MinCritFree=5% Drive=c:\
• CheckCPU warn=80 crit=90 time=20m time=10s time=4

To check that everything works well from another machine do the following:

• Add to allowed_hosts in C:\Program Files\NSClient++\NSC.ini the IP of a linux machine that has the nagios plugins installed
• Reboot the Windows machine (we want to make sure that everything is on a clean state)
• From the Linux machine do the following:

cd /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
./check_nrpe -H mw64-ix-slave01 -c check_load
CRITICAL: 1m: average load 0% > critical, 5m: average load 0% > critical, 15m: average load 0% > critical|'1m'=0%;0;0; '5m'=0%;0;0; '15m'=0%;0;0;
./check_nrpe -H mw64-ix-slave01 -c check_buildbot
OK: python.exe: 1

• Now go back to the Windows machine and restore the allowed_hosts in NSC.ini to its original state

And that's it!
You can now use nagios with your Windows machine!

Here is the output of running |"C:\Program Files\NSClient++\nsclient++.exe" /test| and the two checks:

Launching test mode - client mode
d NSClient++.cpp(1178) Enabling debug mode...
d NSClient++.cpp(551) Attempting to start NSCLient++ - 0.3.8.76 2010-05-27
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: CheckDisk...
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: Event log Checker....
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: Helper function...
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: CheckSystem...
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: CheckWMI...
d \PDHCollector.cpp(73) Autodetected w2k or later, using w2k PDH counters.
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: File logger...
d \PDHCollector.cpp(110) Using index to retrive counternames
l \FileLogger.cpp(93) Log path is: C:\Program Files\NSClient++\\NSC.log
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: NRPE server (w/ SSL)...
d \NRPEListener.cpp(91) Loading all commands (from NRPE)
d \NRPEListener.cpp(121) Starting NRPE socket...
d \PDHCollector.cpp(130) Found countername: CPU:    \Processor(_total)\% Process
or Time
d \PDHCollector.cpp(131) Found countername: UPTIME: \System\System Up Time
d \PDHCollector.cpp(132) Found countername: MCL:    \Memory\Commit Limit
d \PDHCollector.cpp(133) Found countername: MCB:    \Memory\Committed Bytes
d NSClient++.cpp(969) Loading plugin: SystemTray...
d \Socket.h(669) Bound to: 0.0.0.0:5666
e \SysTray.cpp(51) SysTray is not installed (or it cannot interact with the desk
top) SysTray won't be loaded. Run NSClient++ SysTray install to change this.
d NSClient++.cpp(671) NSCLient++ - 0.3.8.76 2010-05-27 Started!
l NSClient++.cpp(455) Using settings from: INI-file
l NSClient++.cpp(456) Enter command to inject or exit to terminate...
CheckDriveSize ShowAll MinWarnFree=10% MinCritFree=5% Drive=c:\
d NSClient++.cpp(1106) Injecting: CheckDriveSize: ShowAll, MinWarnFree=10%, MinC
ritFree=5%, Drive=c:\
d NSClient++.cpp(1142) Injected Result: OK 'OK: c:\: 19.3G'
d NSClient++.cpp(1143) Injected Performance Result: ''c:\ %'=49%;10;5; 'c:\'=19.
32G;3.74;1.87;0;37.47; '
OK:OK: c:\: 19.3G|'c:\ %'=49%;10;5; 'c:\'=19.32G;3.74;1.87;0;37.47;
CheckCPU warn=80 crit=90 time=20m time=10s time=4
d NSClient++.cpp(1106) Injecting: CheckCPU: warn=80, crit=90, time=20m, time=10s
, time=4
d NSClient++.cpp(1142) Injected Result: OK 'OK CPU Load ok.'
d NSClient++.cpp(1143) Injected Performance Result: ''20m'=4%;80;90; '10s'=23%;8
0;90; '4'=22%;80;90; '
OK:OK CPU Load ok.|'20m'=4%;80;90; '10s'=23%;80;90; '4'=22%;80;90;

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