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Hello,

I was wondering if there is a way to extract Nagios client version at the master level? We have hundreds of hosts and depending on where they reside on the network, we use the appropriate client. Lately, we've been primarily using the NPCA client. I know the Nagios API primary reports on hosts/service status, but not much on client version, for example. I have not looked into the Nagios DBs schemas, so am not sure what I can query directly there.

Any guidance or information would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Juana

I believe the ability to view the NCPA version in the API will be added in version 1.8. It is not available at the moment.

Are any of the client versions or types stored in the any of the Nagios DBs? Or clients OS version? Ultimately, what kind of data does the Nagios master have about each client host?

juana wrote:Are any of the client versions or types stored in the any of the Nagios DBs?

No. Not unless there was a check associated - i.e. NRPE version check

juana wrote:Or clients OS version?

No, Not unless is was specifically checked for - i.e. Linux OS version check

juana wrote:Ultimately, what kind of data does the Nagios master have about each client host?

The data contained in the host and service object configs, runtime state data, and historical data. You need to specifically check for the client agent version and OS if you wish to record such information in nagios.

Thank you for the information.