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Hello,

I am new to Nagios XI. I need to monitor Windows servers and from the various documentation I have found, it seems like there is more than 1 way to monitor windows servers. I manually put in all of my windows hosts. I am moving onto services which include CPU, memory, processes and a few others. I see that it suggests using NCPA and also NSClient++. There are all these wizards and it's all intimidating. Can someone suggest a way to set up the services? I see that some of the boxes have NSClient++ installed, but i don't have the password or info on who installed it to ask them.

Looking for a suggestion on the best path to take to set up windows services.

Hi,
Thank you for choosing Nagios ...

In order to monitor Windows or Linux servers, you must first install the NCPA agent on that remote machine.
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/#downloads

Please NOTE that NSClient++ is a 3rd party product.
We are suggesting that you please use NCPA, which is Nagios's own and supported product.

Please follow the KB below to install and setup NCPA agent.
Please remember to write down the "token", which will be needed when you start using the wizard or the "check_ncpa.py" plugin.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncp ... g-NCPA.pdf

Once you have NCPA install on the remote machine, you can start using many of the wizards to setup your first monitoring service.
You could test out the "Windows Server" wizard.

To get to the wizard page:
Nagios XI GUI > Configuration Wizards


Best Regards,
Vinh