Nagios Support Forum

2008 R2 server only want to watch uptime, CPU, RAM, C drive, installed client , said to limit access to nagioxi server, allowed wiz to create checks, - all return connection refused.

I checked and the service is running on the win box, but cannot find any config options on client.

same setup as a test 2012 server which works fine, do I need to re-install the client with more options, or how is the ns client re-configured?

Have you verified the port is open from the nagios machine?

Starting Nmap 5.51 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2014-03-07 07:35 CST
Nmap scan report for pehs-evault.psd202.org (10.190.1.9)
Host is up (0.0013s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE
12489/tcp closed unknown

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 5.58 seconds
[root@nagiosxi scripts]#

We don't have any firewalls active on win box and I ran a netstat -oa and that port 12849 is not being listened to on that server, so I'm thinking the nsclient again? could not find anything to configure it though just start and stop service and it is running according to services.msc

In C:\Program Files\NSClient++ there is a file nsc.ini. That is the configuration file. If you make any changes make sure and restart the service. I can't think of anything besides firewalls(on the machine or on the network) that would stop it from working if the service is started.

yes there is the .ini file, nagios server set correctly and win server can ping it.

as said no firewalls on machines, border firewall would have nothing to do with it, nothing outside of lan. Thanks for info, we'll see what Nagios support says.

NSClient itself does not have the ability to block the listening to of a port, there must be some reason that that port is not passing traffic, anti-virus? Have you tried changing the port nsclient listens on in the nsc.ini file?

Not on this machine, the ini file for some odd reason had this commented out, so after changing that and restarting the service it still doesn't show in an netstat -oa so server is not listening on that port.

If support want the whole file, I can provide that or just re-install the client if you can tell me which options I should need, I only want to check for uptime,CPU,RAM and C drive.

not doing fancy stuff for this one

If you could provide the nsc.ini file, that would be ideal!

Can you upload the nsc.ini file (hide sensitive info)? Also, run the following commands on the Windows box in CMD and show the output:

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