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

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

Restarting Windows Services With NCPA This document describes how to automatically restart problematic services on Windows machines using the Nagios Cross-Platform Agent (NCPA). Documentation - Restarting Windows Services With NCPA   Final Thoughts... Read More

Overview This KB article explains how to use external scripts / plugins with NCPA. NCPA has a lot of built in functionality however you will likely run into a situation where you need to use a script to provide additional monitoring capabilities.... Read More

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.... Read More