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Thank you very much. The following did it: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py -H <host> -t '<token>' -P 5693 -M agent/plugin/restartservice.sh -a 'ntpd' What confused me is that the value to the -M argument ( agent/plugin/ ) is not related to the plugin_path directive in the ncpa.cfg.

We are trying to restart a Linux service using a custom script in the NCPA 'plugins/' directory. The intention is to use it for restarting services. I used the (somewhat limited) documentation . 1. create a restartservice.sh script in the plugins/ directory with execute permissions 2. call check_ncp...

I think it would be a valuable addition to Nagios XI to be able to manually execute remote commands on a host for those occasions when personnel do not have, or are not allowed, direct access to the host. Please create a feature request for this. Will you need more input from me for that? Practical ...

I am aware of how NSClient++ can restart services automatically when they fail. Tried it with an SFTP service on a Windows box and it works nicely. With the monitoring system we use it's possible to *manually* execute an action to restart an application/service (both on Windows and on Linux). For ex...

Thank you very much for the reply. The wizard is working now

When using the SNMP Trap wizard I get the following error: It looks like you are missing the trap handling file snmptraphandling.py normally located here: /usr/local/bin/ - To use this wizard you must configure SNMP using the document How to Intergrate SNMP Traps With Nagios XI. The script is indeed...

Thank you very much, that works

Note: the last block is missing the closing curly brace.

I am using the SNMP Wizard to configure new Linux hosts on RHEL 6 for a Proof Of Concept project with XI. Unfortunately the generated service config files are not working. I see what happens but I do not know how to fix it. - RHEL 6 - nagiosxi-5-2.0.el6.x86_64.tar.gz - offline installation performed...