about-me: Provide a Windows version

Linuxfabrik / monitoring-plugins

200+ check plugins for Icinga and other Nagios-compatible monitoring applications. Each plugin is a standalone command line tool (written in Python) that provides a specific type of check.

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about-me: Provide a Windows version #638

Open slalomsk8er opened 1 year ago

slalomsk8er commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I would like the consistency of having the "About me"-service also in the basic service-set on Windows servers.

Describe the solution you'd like

Port about-me to Windows or write a Windows version and add the service to the Windows service-set.

Alternatives

No response

Additional context

No response

mmartinello commented 1 year ago

Any updates on this? An about-me version for Windows would be very useful.

markuslf commented 1 year ago

You can help by looking at the output of the linux version and considering/telling us which command-line calls are necessary in Windows for each section (without tools to install).

markuslf commented 1 year ago

Let me help you - to be more specific: To make about-me behave more or less the same on Windows as it does on Linux, we need to collect the following information using cmdline calls.

How to...

get Kernel/Windows version
get if running on bare metal or not
get the hypervisor software Windows is running on
get boot mode (uefi/legacy)
get birthday
get list of features (essential for safe operation of Windows in a datacenter)
get list of installed software (software of interest)
get list of installed tools (tools of interest)
get list of non-default local users
get whether Windows boots into GUI or not
get list of enabled services
get list of enabled task scheduler jobs

There may be others that are Windows-only and might be of interest.

mmartinello commented 1 year ago

Yes, I can gather some info on this. I think we could get some hints from Ansible facts. I will invest some time on this!

mmartinello commented 9 months ago

I am still working on this, I am preparing a MVP/draft version of the about-me script on Windows. I think I'll be able to work on this during October!