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I am using NCPA client for a windows machine with a trial version of NagiosXI. I am also able to see Network CPU, Memory and Disk status on Nagios Server. Now I want to see windows update on Nagios Server. Please advise a easy way to see windows update either thru NCPA or WMI

Hi

The best way to do this is via NCPA. Using NCPA you can execute a batch or powershell script
on a Windows machine.

The documentation for NCPA can be found here:
https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php

I looked on the Nagios Exchange and found two pages of plugins that provide Windows Update information
depending on what particular information you want to know:
https://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?o ... s%20update

In lieu of using one of those you can always write your own batch/powershell/perl/python script to run on the Windows
machine. The advantage of using batch or powershell is that you do not need to have python or perl installed on the
Windows machine.

Recently Microsoft "hardened" WMI which makes it difficult and/or impossible to use for monitoring remotely.

Thanks