NCPA and NSClient questions

[Eudes87]

Hello friends, how are you?
Can you please clarify a question regarding installing clients on windows 64bits machines?

1 - Do not find NCPA .exe for Windows 64 Bit on the website: https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#downloads
- Does 32-bit NCPA work on 64bit windows?
- Is it compatible with versions 7.8 and 10 and Windows Server 08.12 and 16?

2 - Install NSClient and have doubts if it is correct to enter a password or leave it blank.
- Entering an "NSClient - ERROR: Invalid Password" error password on some services.

- Leaving an NSClient password blank on installation, I have errors below on some services:
NSClient - ERROR: No performance data from command: check_cpu
NSClient - ERROR: No performance data from command: check_memory
NSClient++ Version OK NSClient++ 0.5.2.35 2018-01-28
NSClient - ERROR: No performance data from command: check_uptime
Unknown command(s): check_service

- No NSClient installation process is required to enter a password or can it be left blank?

[benjaminsmith]

Hello,

1. You can use the 32 bit version on 64bit Windows and I'm not aware of any incompatibilities issues for the various releases of Windows and Windows Server. Here's a link to the installation instructions.

NCPA Agent Installation Instructions

2. You'll need to enter a password and the IP address of the allowed hosts. I highly recommend following the exact steps in our installation guide for NSClient. This is for Nagios XI but can be used for Core as well.

Installing The Windows Agent: NSClient++

Let us know if you have any other questions.

[Eudes87]

1 - Thanks for the guidance, you will test later.
2 - Yes, when installing NSClient on client machines it is necessary to enter a password. Just supplementing the information, you must also enter -s and the password in the commands.cfg file in all check_nt commands as shown below:

define command {

command_name check_nt
command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s Passwd -v $ARG1$ $ARG2$
}

[benjaminsmith]

Hello,

From the Nagios server, try running the following check command for NSCLient. If it fails, please post the error output.

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./check_nt -H <remote-host-ip> -p 12489 -s 'password' -v MEMUSE -w 90 -c 95

[Eudes87]

Hi Benjamin, Good morning.
I was successful in executing, successfully captured the information.
Thanks for the clarification.

[scottwilkerson]

Hi Benjamin, Good morning.
I was successful in executing, successfully captured the information.
Thanks for the clarification.

Great!

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