Recommended remote agent NRPE or NCPA?

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awilson
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Recommended remote agent NRPE or NCPA?

Post by awilson »

Hello. Which remote agent if preferred by the Nagios team? Which will continue to receive the most support and enhancement work?

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Re: Recommended remote agent NRPE or NCPA?

Post by npolovenko »

Hello, @awilson. Both agents are good and will continue to receive support and updates.
If you're trying to monitor a Linux server i'd say nrpe would be a more popular choice, if you're trying to monitor a Windows server I'd go with NCPA or NSClient(which can be configured to use NRPE).
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