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The issues is that I don't want to receive emails every minutes. I want to receive two email one minutes apart from each other.

I am trying to use hostescalation to limit the number of emails that I receive. When I define hostescalation with the below, I get an email every min. If I comment the notification out in the service-templete definition I get no emails. I have a file called host_notification_escalation.cfg which con...

I have enable SNMP on my windows computer. Firewall is disabled both on the nagios server and the windows box. I have tried editing the snmpd.conf on the nagios server (I don't know what I am doing). I can ping my windows box but port 161is open|filtered (This could be the problem). I have tried the...

I am trying to use the built in check_snmp and can only get a response from localhost.
When I try to get snmp response my windows machine from my nagios server on CentOS I get No response.
Can someone help me with getting snmp working?

jsmurphy, you say that NsClient can do a whole lot more, can you please explain. I have multiple sources that say this but no one can explain what these are.
Please give me a list of things the the installed agent can do that the WMI or SNMP can't do

I am checking computer resources (plan to use one of the graphing plugin with) check and make sure services and processes are running on servers. Also we check ports for services that we pay for. I have a management staff that does not like to install additional software to the servers unless needed...

From the online tutorial it show tells us to use the NsClient Agent for windows machine. Can someone explain to me the benefits over WMI or SNMP. I have my nagios core setup to be able to use NsClient and WMI Checks. I want to also know which uses more resources over all and how do I prove that I us...

I don't understand your question, Can you please re-phrase the question?

Thanks you for that information. I changed to my nagios user and allowed the nagios user to SSH into the remote linux machine and execute command without need a password. I created a RSA authorization for my linux servers.

Thanks Again.

I created a bash script that SSH into another machine and gets a value and sets it to a variable and prints the variable out. But when the command in executed by Nagios it does not print the variable. Sudo code goes as follow: var_used=$(SSH root@host free -m | get the used memory) echo used $var_us...