Monitoring service of remote linux server

[t3dus]

So I have my nagios server at my house monitoring some stuff on an external linux server but I'm not quite sure how I can monitor a service of a remote linux server?

For windows I'd probably do something like this but what would I do for linux services monitoring?

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define service{
        use                     generic-service
        host_name               Matt-i7
        service_description     Explorer
        check_command           check_nt!PROCSTATE!-d SHOWALL -l Explorer.exe
        notifications_enabled           0
        }

I have a service called "furybot" which is basically just a Budabot chat bot i use for a game I play. it shows up in htop like this

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However I'm not sure how i can monitor that in Nagios.

As you can see below it's a custom service I setup.

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[scottwilkerson]

For monitoring services on a Linux machine you will need to install an agent on the Linux servers such as NCPA

See the following link for documentation and download instructions
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/

[t3dus]

For monitoring services on a Linux machine you will need to install an agent on the Linux servers such as NCPA

See the following link for documentation and download instructions
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/

Well I knew that and I have no problem doing that. My question is trying to figure out how my definition would look for a custom service like that.

[scottwilkerson]

There is a services section here

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https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php#api-modules-services

something like this

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./check_ncpa.py -H <your IP> -t '<your token>' -M 'services' -q 'service=Dhcp,status=running'

NCPA also has a web UI on servers it is installed on that can show what is available to be monitored in the API tab

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https://IP_ADDRESS:5693/