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Can you post your ini file?

Yes, please post the file. Thanks @ruffsense!

Hello everyone,

First of all, I wish you the best for the year to come

and to come back to my problem, you can find the conf file in attachment.

please notice that the new conf file is almost empty, I will fill in with old informations translated when I found out how to ...

if you can help me "convert" the old conf to the new conf format, It will be great also

thank you

From what I can tell, your nsclient.ini looks good provided you're using 0.4.3. Please attempt to test over the command line from the /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ directory with something similar to this - Let us know the full output from your testing. If it fails, please run netstat -an | findstr 12489 on the Windows machine, and post it for us to review.

Hello,

it seems to work in command line, but I can't find where to indicate the port in the Nagios interface, it's some users variables ("check_nt screenshot") ...

and when I try to test the command, I get the "command check test" screen

Where can I fill in for the $USER7$ ? what is $USER8$ ?

thank you

Take a look at this file for how to modify the $USER#$ macros - https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Macros.pdf - essentially just the /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg file. I would make sure that $USER7$ is equal to 12489 - it should work at that point. If not, please post your resource.cfg for us to review.

Actually, .4.3 has a serious PROCSTATE bug. You should upgrade to .4.4. if you want to use PROCSTATE.

Hello,

so if I want to monitor a process :
- have to be on .4.4,
- need the $USER7$ variable set to 12489 (already done)
- modify the check_nt command to get rid of the "-s $USER8$"

right ?

I don't want to use PROCSTATE at all costs, I want to monitor a process on Windows Server, that's all.

nagios_aws wrote:Hello,

so if I want to monitor a process :
- have to be on .4.4,
- need the $USER7$ variable set to 12489 (already done)
- modify the check_nt command to get rid of the "-s $USER8$"

right ?

correct, though if you post your resource.cfg we can be more confident.

Also, you said you were on .5, right? If that's the case, the problem may be that your nsclient.ini is built for .4.x. Unfortunately, NSClient leaves some cruft around between versions. You can just uninstall it, you also have to delete all of the data associated with it.

I don't want to use PROCSTATE at all costs, I want to monitor a process on Windows Server, that's all.

You can definitely do some process monitoring with WMI, but I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Also, at this point, I see no reason to push you to WMI, unless you just see an easier configuration than NSClient.

Hello,

yes, i'm on 0.5 version, I did a clean install of it, so the nsclient.ini is a standard one.

I modified the check_nt command to get rid of the $USER8$ variable (password) and it works now.

I have also added some instructions in nsclient.ini to handle my commands and arguments:
everything seems to work as expected now, thank you for your help !

you can close this thread I think