NCPA Question

[jimhoffmann]

Is there a way to disable the Web GUI for the NCPA agent?

[mcapra]

Not, to my knowledge, via the configuration files. However, renaming the templates path is enough to cause the GUI to error out on every request.

In Linux, this path: /usr/local/ncpa/listener/templates
In Windows, this path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Nagios\NCPA\listener\templates

[jimhoffmann]

So, disabling the listener service would not disable the GUI?

[mcapra]

It would, but it would also disable the "active checks" portion of NCPA. From here:
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php

The NCPA Listener service does the following:

• Serves and handles connections to the web GUI
• Handles external API requests (including those for active checks)
• Provides API for live graphing and top processes
• Provides and "offline" internal API for the NCPA Passive service

If your NCPA setup is only doing passive checks, it would be fine to disable the listener in this case.