Looking for a solution - Alert when Terminal Server licenses low

Question

I've googled till my little google button fell off of my keyboard, here's what I'm looking for. We need a solution that will shoot off an email when the number of terminal server licenses that we have falls below 90%. Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Answer 1

I don't believe that this information is easily available in a way that would allow this to happen under windows 2003.

I know you that TS license information is available via WMI on Windows 2008, but that probably won't help.

• http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2006/09/15/terminal-server-licensing-gateway-wmi-providers.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383802%28VS.85%29.aspx
• http://www.thincomputing.net/blog/terminal-server-licensing-gateway-wmi-providers.html

Answer 2

I had a feeling you could set Nagios to do this kind of thing. There's some code over on exchange.nagios.org under "check terminal services licensing".