Nagios Support Forum

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

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

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

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.