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Is it possible to restart services which are running in Host servers from Nagios Server?
Please let me know the solution if the above one works

You can with event handlers if you have agents installed.

Here are a few guides on how to do that, the guides are written for Nagios XI but you can apply the same methods to Nagios Core
https://library.nagios.com/library/prod ... nagios-xi/

I'm Using Nagios Core for checking the services, When I trying to start configuring above service I'm getting an error like this https://prnt.sc/qbv9i0 while I'm accessing client machine from Nagios server

Please let me know the solution

Are you sure the service name on the remote host is crond and not just cron or some other variation?

Yea I tried in client server there I'm getting the output when I'm trying with the command


Trying from Nagios Server to the Client Machine: https://prnt.sc/qce05z


In the Client machine: https://prnt.sc/qce0x6

Can you share the command specified for restart_service in the nrpe.cfg as well as the script you are running in that command

As you are mentioned in the Document, I'm following the same


This is what I m added in the nrpe.cfg file in the client machine: https://prnt.sc/qcmtbr

This is the script im running from the Nagios Server: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H XX.X.X.X -p 5666 -c service_restart -a cron

And i didn't create a Create Event Handler Script since I'm not getting a proper output from the above commands as mentioned in the Document

Can you share your whole nrpe.cfg from the remote machine, we need to see if you have

Please find the attached one

here Dont blame value=0

Change the value to 1

Then restart nrpe