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I'm configuring my first Nagios deployment and have it basically working with Nagios Core on Ubuntu, monitoring a single Windows server via NCPA.

I have a bunch of Windows clients I also want to monitor. However, I don't want to assign them static IP addresses and monitor them in the same way as the server. I want the clients to send in their status via NRDP. I have NRDP working and I can see that the check results are deposited on the server and read by the core daemon. However, nothing pops up in Nagios.

I was hoping that anything reported via NRDP would just pop up in Nagios, but that's not happening. I tried creating a minimal configuration for a host but still nothing pops up.

So, how is this supposed to work? Can I monitor clients with dynamic IPs? IS that what NRDP is for?

Any help much appreciated

Hello, @acroberts . Yes NRDP should work with dynamic IP address. I hope your Core Server has a static IP though . Take a look at this tutorial:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... gLD_fD_BwE
And also take a look at this post:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=46104

Basically, you need to install NCPA, then configure NRDP section of NCPA on the remote servers/computers that you're going to monitor. On your Nagios Core NRDP also needs to be set up, so that if you type http://core_ip_address/nagios/nrdp in the web browser that should take you to the NRDP web interface.

Next step would be to open a /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log file and look for entries such as: After that we'll help you set up this checks to actually show up in Core Web Interface.