Nagios Windows Server Software Will Be

Our earlier articles describes nagios core service installation and configure nagiosql with nagios core server.

Similar to NRPE service on Linux, NSClinet is the service for windows hosts to monitor through checknrpe from nagios server.

Nagios Windows Server Software Will Be

The software will be named NSCP-xxxxxx.msi.

During the installation process, you would require to enter the Nagios server to allow the server to connect the client through NRPE.

START the installation Accept the license terms and click Next Click on Complete setup type Select the permissions on nsclient configuration file Enter Nagios server ip in Allowed Hosts and enter password Click on Install button Finish Installation Step 2 Verify Connectivity from Nagios Server After installing NSClient on your system.

Lets verify that your nagios server is properly connecting to windows client through nrpe service.

For example my windows client ip is 192.168.1.10.

Step 3 Adding Host in Nagios Server We recommend using NagiosQL3 for configuration Nagios.

It provides a user-friendly web interface for managing your Nagios service.

In case you are not using nagiosql and want to add your host in Nagios server.

Create a configuration file usrlocalnagiosetcserversMyWindowsHost001.cfg using below values.

So add a ping check service, which will continuously check that host is up.

If there are no errors found in configuration, restart nagios service.

August 15, 2019 at 7:06 am Hi Rahul ji, Windows server added for monitoring but getting error NSClient ERROR: Invalid password.

It is said that it is the most powerful tools for monitoring.we can monitor remote windows host by using the Nagios server.so it is really useful.

October 30, 2017 at 8:12 pm add cfgdirusrlocalnagiosetcserversMyWindowsHost001.cfg in nagios.cfg file and then restart nagios service.

October 31, 2017 at 7:02 am Hi, use directory path with cfgdir configuration variable in nagios.cfg like: cfgdirusrlocalnagiosetcservers.

November 5, 2015 at 3:08 pm I followed your every instruction perfectly, but still its not working.

July 29, 2015 at 10:17 pm I followed your instructions and everything seemed to work fine, but the Windows server isnt showing up as a host on the Nagios web interface.

I didnt install nagiosql, but should that be a problem Thanks in advance.

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