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Ah ha! Looking at the docs that the guy who installed it left, it does look like it is using the old plugin. I'll look to see if I can get this upgraded and get it to work with DNS.

Thanks all for your help. It's much appreciated.

No they are not. I'll look in to that though. These were built initially by someone else, got connectivity, and found a working method and stuck with it. Now maybe that's not giving us the portability we are looking for. Thanks, I'll see what this client can do.

We aren't using that, but the standard Nrpe client listening on 5666. Don't know why they were set up initially like that, but they are, and they work, but just not woth DNS names. Hope this makes sense. I'm not a Windows admin.

We are currently migrating our old Nagios core server to a new host. From what I've seen so far, I don't need to change the client software on any of the hosts we communicate with (we are also upgrading the core to latest release and changing the O/S from Solaris to Ubuntu. All well and good. My pro...