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I've got kind of a simple question, so I'm getting an error stating 'NSClient - ERROR: Invalid password.' on a few newly added nodes. I know I entered the right password, but how can I go back and edit the password. I don't see an option. I wanted to see if I'm able to go back and edit, whether it be on the client or server node before I uninstall the NSClient++ agent and reinstall it where it will then ask me for the password again.

Cheers,

Hi sheld0r,

On a windows server you can change the password in the following file (depending on install location):

C:\Program Files\NSClient++\nsclient.ini

Scroll down till you find "password = " and change the password as required.

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards,

Gary Shergill

Gshergill is correct, that is the location to edit the password for all inbound checks from your nagios systems. The you must use the password flag on check_nrpe checks which should be set to:

As I thought, the password is indeed correct on the client. I don't quite understand what to do slansing. Is this a command I run, or an edit to the host? Very new to Nagios, especially the inner workings of Nagios.

Cheers,

First let me verify, does the password have special chars,
ie etc?

If so these will need to be escaped in XI.

Second, if this isn't the case, you will want to go to Configure -> CCM -> Services -> Modify (one of these services)

Verify the $ARG1$ field does match the password.

Lets start with a simple CLI ran check to the remote host, run the following from your command line filling in the quoted areas with your information: