NSCLient++ and/or NCPA client for Windows monitoring?

[ronafisher2]

Greetings,

I'm just looking for some clarity on what is the proper config for active monitoring of Windows. I had it in my brain that NCPA was sort of a replacement for the NSClient. I'm working with the latest 4.4.6 core code in a new install. The sample config files for Windows have the NSClient referenced.

Anybody have some guidance here as I've been combing through docs and not really finding anything?

Thanks
Ron

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Ron,

The process for setting up the checks in the configurations is really the same for any type of agent. I would definitely recommend using NCPA as we are always adding new features and it's fully supported by Nagios.

I would recommend logging into the GUI to view the built-in API. At the bottom of the page it will provide an example format using check_ncpa.py which is what you will want to use within your configurations.

Here's a link to the official docs.
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php

Benjamin
Nagios Support Team