In this article I wish to mark some advantages / disadvantages of having a WMI proxy in your Nagios setup.
To WMI or not to WMI….
First we need to explain what exactly a WMI proxy is. Basically this machine is a Linux/Windows machine with a Nagios client installed that runs as a service. This WMI proxy has some scripts (I will detail them in my next post) capable to check other Windows servers with the help of the WMI repository located on each Windows server. The same technique is applied with success by SCCM, SCOM, SpiceWorks, etc.