NCPA / NagiosXI 2012R2.5

[devinacosta]

I have used NRPE for many years when dealing with Nagios, and heard about NCPA (sounds like a new way to do checks). I successfully installed the NCPA listener on one of my RedHat Enterprise boxes however I'm not fully sure how I am suppose to have NagiosXI talk to the NCPA client. I see mention of some check_ncpa.py script however my NagiosXI server does not have that installed. Also I notice that the NCPA seems to basically do basic checks disk, memory, etc. If i need to have custom plugins say written in Python or Ruby that I need to get NCPA to use how do i successfully do this? Is there any documentation that you can point to me in regards to this, or is this so new that I should stay away from it right now??

Please advise.

Thanks much.
Devin

[slansing]

NCPA is still technically in the development phase, however there is a wizard available through Nagios XI that will allow you to set hosts and services up. The documentation is still in progress for integrating custom plugins.

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

[costanza2k1]

We are getting ready to build our or XI environment do you recommend NCPA over NRPE? Or should we hold off?

[lmiltchev]

As slansing suggested, "NCPA is still technically in the development phase", so I would recommend holding off for now, at least in regards to your production server. You can experiment with it on your test server though.
Note: Each Nagios XI license is approved for up to three installations: one primary monitoring/production, one backup/failover, and one test environment.