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Where can i download nagios agent for windows and linux. Whether nagios does agent or agent-less monitoring

If you have specific questions about particular agents, I would suggest starting new forum threads for those questions. With that said, onward...

Issac08 wrote:Where can i download nagios agent for windows and linux.

NCPA will do both: https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/archive.php
NRPE will also do both, sorta: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... or/details
NRPE needs some help on the Windows side. NRPE can run on anything where you can compile it which means the documentation is long, but you don't necessarily need everything in https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... utions.pdf

Issac08 wrote:Whether nagios does agent or agent-less monitoring

Nagios can use SNMP or WMI. For security purposes, these still need to be turned on on both Linux (no WMI here) and Windows (both options here). Some people refer to these as agentless, even though there is still a process running on the remote host.