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Greetings,

I'm just looking for some clarity on what is the proper config for active monitoring of Windows. I had it in my brain that NCPA was sort of a replacement for the NSClient. I'm working with the latest 4.4.6 core code in a new install. The sample config files for Windows have the NSClient referenced.

Anybody have some guidance here as I've been combing through docs and not really finding anything?

Thanks
Ron

Hi Ron,

The process for setting up the checks in the configurations is really the same for any type of agent. I would definitely recommend using NCPA as we are always adding new features and it's fully supported by Nagios.

I would recommend logging into the GUI to view the built-in API. At the bottom of the page it will provide an example format using check_ncpa.py which is what you will want to use within your configurations.
Here's a link to the official docs.
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php

Benjamin
Nagios Support Team