NCPA Agent Windows Installation to Different Drive

[mp4783]

We would like to install the NCPA agent for Windows on the "D:" drive of our Windows servers.

Does anyone know if this is possible? The ".exe" installer command line options do not appear to support any change in the installation location.

Thanks.

[ssax]

Should be able to pass it in with the /D switch:

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ncpa-1.8.1.exe /S /D=D:\Program Files (x86)\Nagios\NCPA

[mp4783]

Thank you for the suggestion. It did not work. It still installed it on the C: drive.

Any other ideas?

[lmiltchev]

I don't see an option for specifying a custom drive (install directory) in the "Installing NCPA on Windows" document ("Silent Install" section):

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... on-windows

We will check this out with our developers and get back to you.

[mp4783]

I finally broke open the exe file and figured out the install "logic" was kept in [NSIS].nsi file. It appears the author is using the NSIS packager. Based upon an admittedly superficial reading of the ini file, it appears the install directory is controlled by the $PROGRAMFILES constant in NSIS.

After reading some of the NSIS documentation and trying several things, the following command line works (option values are obviously fake):

ncpa-1.8.1.exe /S /TOKEN=apiToken /NRDPURL=https://nrdphost.mycompany.com/nrdp /HOST=monitoredhost.mycompany.com /NRDPTOKEN=nrdpToke /D=D:\Program Files (x86)\Nagios\NCPA

The secret is that the "/D=" must go at the end of the command line. The NSIS script sort of suggests this.

I strongly urge you to ask the developer (Scott, you know who you are) to consider updating the documentation.

You may lock this thread.

[hsmith]

I finally broke open the exe file and figured out the install "logic" was kept in [NSIS].nsi file. It appears the author is using the NSIS packager. Based upon an admittedly superficial reading of the ini file, it appears the install directory is controlled by the $PROGRAMFILES constant in NSIS.

After reading some of the NSIS documentation and trying several things, the following command line works (option values are obviously fake):

ncpa-1.8.1.exe /S /TOKEN=apiToken /NRDPURL=https://nrdphost.mycompany.com/nrdp /HOST=monitoredhost.mycompany.com /NRDPTOKEN=nrdpToke /D=D:\Program Files (x86)\Nagios\NCPA

The secret is that the "/D=" must go at the end of the command line. The NSIS script sort of suggests this.

I strongly urge you to ask the developer (Scott, you know who you are) to consider updating the documentation.

You may lock this thread.

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