Problem Description Certain services in Microsoft Windows use special characters in the service name like MSSQLFDLauncher$UWCX01. This causes problems with Nagios as it thinks the $ is part of a variable.     Resolving The Problem Using NCPA Your... Read More

Problem Description It has been observed that scheduling backups of Nagios xi at midnight (00:00) will create multiple Nagios parent processes to be unintentionally created. Multiple Nagios parent processes causes many unusual problems.  ... Read More

Problem Description You install NCPA on Windows Server 2008 R2 and the install appears to run normally and completes. However no directory/services/processes are created after and it does not appear under Uninstall or change a program in the control... Read More

Problem Description The NCPA client is not sending passive check results to your Nagios server. When looking at the /usr/local/ncpa/var/log/ncpa_passive.log you observe the following: 2018-01-10 06:21:19,356 2904 INFO Running check: services?service... Read More

Overview This KB article explains the changes to the API endpoint for accessing services and processes. The old method was removed in the 2.1.0 release of NCPA and hence your monitoring configurations require updating.   Services Here is an example... Read More

Problem Description This KB article addresses the following NCPA error: NCPA- Service Check Timeout After n Seconds   Assumed Knowledge The following KB article contains an explanation of how NCPA works and may need to be referenced to completely... Read More