On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:14:30PM +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote: > Does anybody have any advice as to which I should go with? What have you > used and what are your experiences of this?
I'd take a security-based approach. I do not feel too comfortable with a server holding valueable or vital data is open to connection from the nagios host, which, as a host running a web interface, might be more easily compromised than the actual server. This is a minus for NRPE. With NSCA, the actual server would initiate the connection to the Nagios host which decreases security exposure. otoh, NSCA has a "gap" in data flow as nsca_send wants to see the output in a different format than the plugins put out. There are a bunch of shell scripts around that "translate" between the plugin and nsca_send, but these are like foreign objects in the nagios setup in my feelings. I think that there should be a "glue binary" written in C that calls the plugin and then hands over the results to nsca_send. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null