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NRPE or NCPA

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:13 am
by Dzonii
Hello to everyone, i wanna to monitor couple hosts with Nagios Core Server (only CPU and HD services ). Which solution is best and more simple for me to install NRPE or NCPA, or there is maybe another way to achieve this. Thx in advance

Re: NRPE or NCPA

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:18 am
by scottwilkerson
NCPA is more and more becoming the defacto standard agent for Nagios, works on many more OS's and is easy to install.

https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/

Re: NRPE or NCPA

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:12 am
by Dzonii
I download it arleady, and how to configure it ? Do i have to download NRPE on both sides or only on agent ? Thank you so much.

Re: NRPE or NCPA

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 9:26 am
by scottwilkerson
Dzonii wrote:I download it arleady, and how to configure it ?
You downloaded NCPA? there is a setup guide under documentation section here
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#docs
Dzonii wrote:Do i have to download NRPE on both sides or only on agent ?
You need to download /install a plugin on the Nagios server for either agent NRPE or NCPA


More info
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/getting-started.php

Re: NRPE or NCPA

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:40 am
by Dzonii
Thank you so much @ scottwilkerson for your answer. I used NRPE and configured to monitor hdd, it work fine, now i wanna know will i get automatically alert when my hdd is full ? or should i configure that

Re: NRPE or NCPA

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:58 am
by scottwilkerson
Dzonii wrote:Thank you so much @ scottwilkerson for your answer. I used NRPE and configured to monitor hdd, it work fine, now i wanna know will i get automatically alert when my hdd is full ? or should i configure that
You will if you set warning and critical levels when you configured your check.