I know this is a tired subject but I'm now needing to expand beyond my nagios server and have have check run locally on machines in my infrastructure to make them tell me things like how much disk space is left etc...
I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a nagios instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if this is not the case. I guess you could wrap the plugin in another script which is then cronned to do the check and then send the results via nsca to the nagios server? Nrpe take the more active approach but this seems weak from a security point of view to simply test the sender's ip address. Ip spoofing has been around for a while as I'm sure everybody here knows... Then there's net-snmp. I've had a brief look but this is a little strange and I find it to be a bit complicated considering I'm not used to using snmp. Also, when I tried it out against stuff I know has snmp like printers, I couldn't get any info out of them unless I dropped to v1 even though after reading the docs I would think everything modern would use the more secure v3.... Could I get some advice/opinions about what I should do since I want to do this soon. Thanks Hari -- Hari Sekhon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
