I have quite a few Windows boxes that need monitoring from Nagios and mostly everything is pretty straightforward.  I used to use the old nsclient utility until I started to need to run custom scripts on my machines at which point I shifted to nc_net which is a lot more advanced and currently under active development (always a healthy thing for an open-source project).

The other day I rebooted one of my Windows machines to find that nc_net would not start up correctly.  I kept getting the the following error in the good old event viewer:-
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