Cant Monitor any windows server

[skypete]

Asking for help been stuck on this for past few days I have tried to install latest nagios core on multiple os's such as ubuntu centos debian and cannot get the windows server to monitor correctly. can someone please help my question is should i use the nscclient or nscp for window monitoring.Can someone help with step by step details on how to get multiple servers working and the nrpe function work correctly with windows side. I am new to nagios really appreciate any help also note i am using a vm not sure if this matters or not.

[mcapra]

should i use the nscclient or nscp for window monitoring.

NSClient and "NSCP" are one in the same.

NSClient++ and NCPA are the two most popular Windows agents. There is official documentation for setting up NCPA to monitor Windows machines with Nagios Core. If the documentation doesn't work for you, since Nagios Enterprises maintains NCPA they can likely give some solid advice and troubleshooting steps.

You could also use an integrated Windows agent like SNMP or WMI. Plugins exist for both these options but require a bit of Windows know-how to get started:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... us/details
https://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?o ... ows%20SNMP

[dwhitfield]

In addition to @mcapra's suggestion, as long as you ignore the XI-specific pieces, https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf should be useful.

The VM part may end up being useful. Is your nagios VM able to ping or otherwise talk to the Windows servers you are trying to monitor? Ping is often turned off on Windows servers, so that may be the hangup. You don't need to use ping as a host check. You can use whatever command you like.