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Its a 10.7.5 virtual machine. I really think it might be the ncpa instance on the client not forming the xml correctly that it is submitting to the nrdp server. I tracked the nrdp code and it looks fine, the only thing I can think is that the xml coming from the NCPA submission has extra lines in it...

OK, does that mean I have to buy the Nagios XI license to get passive monitoring to work? All the NRDS documentation I've seen says you have to configure it using the Config Manager Component. That is installed in Nagios XI via uploading the .zip file to the component management section via the Admi...

You might try to check your nagios.cfg file as well.

Check for the section labeled: EXTERNAL COMMAND OPTION and see if that is a '1' or a '0' - it has to be '1' to enable the external commands which is how NRDP sends data to Nagios. (I think, I'm new)

@tmcdonald - yes that is our network range. the 168 is in both the second and third octets. @slansing I'm not 100% sure how to answer you actually. The [nrds] section of the ncpa.cfg is still in the default settings, I made no changes to that section. The way i understood it NCPA could use either/or...

For the Mac hostname: In the [nrdp] section I have hand coded the name to match the one on the Nagios server (for the host entry on nagios) In the [passive checks] section I have it as I linked above. The default %HOSTNAME% and the hand coded variants with the quotes. So no scripts or macros, just e...

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-Also, I'll be sure to put in the Code blocks next time, I didn't see the option when I first posted, thanks for the help tmcdonald!-

Hello all. I'm new to Nagios and this forum in general. Not new to Linux/servers/sysadmin/etc. Here is my situation: -I am trying to get passive checks working from a MAC using NCPA, but the NRDP doesn't seem to be reading the HOSTNAME Here is my setup: -Nagios Core 4, on a CentOS 6 VM. Built from s...