nagios windows monitoring with nsclient

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download and install 

download from [https://www.nsclient.org/download/ https://www.nsclient.org/download/\

for windows get file named NSCP-x.x.x.x-x64.msi where x.x.x.x = some version number

nsclient ini file

inside default install dir 

c:\Program Files\NSCLient++\nsclient.ini

set auth password, allowed hosts, enable/disable modules/plugins

starting and stopping 

net start nscp / net stop nscp

test mode

start in test mode by running, debug message send to stdout 

nscp test

monitoring with nagios 

check_nt commands as of 2020 in the nagios sample config files work out of the box when tested using nagios 4.5 and nsclient 0.5.2.35 for me
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