NCPA (Bind IP Configuration)

[ybadrou]

hello guys,

I have my NAGIOS XI server installed on a ubunto machine. And I am trying to add a windows7 machine to be supervised.
I have installed the NCPA agent on the windows machine. Since I leave the Bind IP address as default (0.0.0.0) everything goes well. but this is not secure. So when I try put my Nagios server IP address on the bind IP, My server could not reach the windows machine
(The firewall rule that accept traffic on 5693/TCP is already configured and enabled).

If anyone has the same problem, please let me know.

Thanks,

[scottwilkerson]

The Bind IP is what IP on the Windows machine you want NCPA to listen on (in case you have multiple network interfaces), 0.0.0.0 means listen on all network cards.

You would not put your Nagios servers IP here.

[ybadrou]

Thank you scottwikkerson for the answer. I corrected this just after posting my request haha . I was confused because I thought that I have to mention the allowed host (which need to be the Nagios Server), it does not come to my mind that it is the network interface IP address. Thank any way.

I have another question if possible. I am trying to use customized plugins to be run on my client hosts. do I need NRPE for this to work? If yes, does NRPE come integrated by default with NCPA agent after the installation ? or do I have other alternative to perform this task.

Thank you again

[scottwilkerson]

NCPA has a plugins directory that you can add windows plugins to, here is the documentation on using plugins
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php#ap ... ng-plugins