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 of metrics and functions that seamlessly integrate with Nagios monitoring solutions. NCPA also comes with a fully accessible API interface and real-time GUI graphing capabilities.

Overview

NCPA is easy to install and covers a large spectrum of applications and monitoring metrics, making NCPA the most flexible monitoring agent available to date. NCPA combines the features and functionality of multiple industry-standard monitoring agents to provide System Administrators with a single tool capable of monitoring their entire infrastructure.

Agent Comparison

Features \ Edition	NCPA	NRDS Agent	NSClient ++	NRPE
Installs on Linux
Installs on Windows
Installs on Mac OSX
graphical User Interface
Active Check Metrics
Passive Check Capabilities
Flexible API Access
Seamless Integration with Nagios XI
Integration with Nagios Core via NRDP
Official Nagios Enterprises Monitoring Agent
Pre-configured Monitoring Metrics
Integration with NRDS Configuration Protocol

Installation Instructions

NCPA is designed to be installed on multiple operating systems, making it the best choice for System Administrators looking to simplify the management of the IT infrastructure monitoring system. Instructions for installing NCPA on network devices can be found in the technical documentation:

Documentation - How to Install NCPA

Download

Below is a link to directly download the installers for NCPA.

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/ncpa/download.php

NCPA Pre-Configured API Monitoring Metrics

CPU Core count CPU Usage percent (per core) Idle time (per core) System time (per core) User time (per core)	System Hostname/nodename Machine OS version OS type OS release number
Processes & Services Number of X Processes Running where X is user definable Service Name: Running or Not Running	Users User Count User List
Swap Memory Swap Memory Used Swap Memory Total Swap Memory Percent Used Swap Memory Free	Virtual Memory Virtual Memory Available Virtual Memory Total Virtual Memory Percent Used Virtual Memory Free Virtual Memory Used
Logical Disks **Per Logical Volume Metrics (Smart detection of volumes) Total size Used percent Used bytes Free bytes Volume name	Physical Disks **Per Physical Disk Metrics (Smart detection of disks): Read time Read count Read bytes Write time Write count Write bytes
Network Interfaces **Per Interface Metrics (Smart detection of interfaces): Packets sent Packets received Inbound packets dropped	Network Interfaces Outbound packets dropped Inbound errors Outbound errors Bytes sent Bytes received

Final Thoughts

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