Nagios XI and NCPA

[robatwork]

Hello,
Having been pointed away from NPRE and towards NCPA to monitor my Windows 2012 server, I have a simple query that I can't seen addressed int eh docs.

Can I restart a windows service if it, for example, goes above a certain CPU threshold?

thanks
Rob

[dwhitfield]

Why not just use NSClient .4.4? That works for you, correct? Here's the previous thread: https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47359

[robatwork]

I didn't manage to get the services restarted using NSclient++ so I thought I'd try your supported client as advised - if it can't do service restarts then I will persevere with NSClient++

So can you control windows services with NCPA?

[npolovenko]

@robatwork, Here's a tutorial on how to restart a windows service using NRPE part of the NSClient++
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... 2hEALw_wcB
You could also create an event handler to do this automatically:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Let me know if you'd like me to assist you with NSCLient + NRPE, or if you'd like to go with NCPA instead.

[robatwork]

@robatwork, Here's a tutorial on how to restart a windows service using NRPE part of the NSClient++
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... 2hEALw_wcB
You could also create an event handler to do this automatically:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Let me know if you'd like me to assist you with NSCLient + NRPE, or if you'd like to go with NCPA instead.

Hi- thanks for the reply. Just for clarity - NCPA can't restart services?

[npolovenko]

@robatwork, You can. It works differently on NCPA. You'd write a plugin that restarts windows services and put in the plugins directory on a windows server. Then you'd use the following command:

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https://localhost:5693/api/plugins/<plugin name>/<arg1>/<arg2>/?token=mytoken

or

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check_ncpa.py -H my.host.com -t mytoken -M 'plugins/restart_service.bat'