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Nagios XI - Nagios Agents
Overview Agents are programs that help aid Nagios with monitoring. Most often they are used to get information from remote machines or devices. Agents There are several agents for Nagios, generally the agents work with Nagios Core and Nagios XI ... Read More
NCPA - Agent Installation Instructions
Agent Installation Instructions This document describes how to install the Nagios Cross Platform Agent (NCPA) on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. NCPA is intended to simplify and universalize agent-based monitoring across different operating systems. Doc... Read More
NCPA - An Agent Comparison
What is NCPA? NCPA (Nagios Cross-Platform Agent) is an Open Source Nagios monitoring agent designed to provide users with the most flexibility for monitoring any device. NCPA is a universal cross-platform agent that comes pre-configured with dozens o... Read More
Nagios XI - How To Monitor Devices Using The NCPA Agent and Wizard
How To Monitor Devices Using The NCPA Agent and Wizard This document describes how to use Nagios® XI™ to actively monitor machines via the NCPA agent (Nagios Cross Platform Agent). NCPA is an advanced, cross-platform agent that can be installed on... Read More
NRPE - Agent and Plugin Explained
Overview Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) is an agent used by Nagios XI for communicating with remote hosts. Remote hosts are operating systems like Linux and Windows. This KB article explains: How Nagios XI sends requests to the NRPE Agent... Read More
Agent Checks
Agent Checks Agent checks are commonly used to confirm that the agent is running and also to determine the version of the agent. Nagios Plugins - NRPE Nagios Plugins are usually executed via NRPE on the remote system. Command: ./check_nrpe -H 10.... Read More
Automatic Agent Deployment
Automatic Agent Deployment Introduction The Automatic Agent Deployment feature allows you to deploy select monitoring agents to one or more monitorable systems at one time. This feature is also useful for conducting periodic agent version checks ... Read More
How to Agentless Monitor a Windows Machine with Nagios XI
We will show you how to agentlessly monitor a Windows machine using OpenSSH with Nagios XI. This works well with legacy systems. For modern systems, we recommend using Nagios Cross Platform Agent (NCPA). See video details below. ... Read More
Nagios XI - Installing The AIX Agent
Installing The AIX Agent This document describes how to install the AIX monitoring agent on target AIX servers. Documentation - Installing The AIX Agent Final Thoughts For any support related questions please visit the Nagios Support Forums at: ht... Read More
Nagios XI - Installing The Linux Agent
Installing The Linux Agent This document describes how to install the Linux monitoring agent on target RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, SLES, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, and Debian Linux servers. Other Linux distributions may be added in the future. Documentation - Insta... Read More