Am Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 19:25:33 schrieb Michael Medin: > Hello > > Since I am pondering a replacement for the NSCA and NRPE protocol I > thought I would get some thoughts from the community? > So this is pretty much an "open floor" kind of thing to get some sense > of what people actually need and would want (if anything at all). > But to get some general idea I'll give you a few questions to start it off: > > Is a new protocol a good idea?
No. People thought about network managment protocol for more than 20 years now. I doubt that you can reinvent anything better. > Should a new protocol be "flat text based" or structured? No need for a new protocol. > Would webservices be the best way? > > Should the protocol be extensible? Yes. > What features would a new protocol need to support? > - message, performance data, configuration, multiple queries, control > logic transfer, inventory, etc. > > What plattforms would it need to support? > > Whats polling scheme(s): active, passive, active/passive, proxy, etc? > > Master/slave scenarios? > In both NRPE and NSCA "nagios" is the master should the client be > allowed to act as master? > > What kind of security mechanisms do you need (host, password, > encryption, certificates, etc)? > > Client side "checks" or client side data gathering with server side checks? > (ie. check_nrpe get "ok" back, another option would be to get the > "value" and let the server decide if it is good or bad.) > > Multiple streams? > ie send to both Nagios and potentially other collectors (like rrd) > > <<Feel free to add more thoughts and ideas here>> > > // Michael Medin Go for SNMP. This is the ONLY standard for vendor independent managment of devices. Nearly all devices support it. And I really doubt that you will be able to implement your agent on a Cisco IOS or a Check Point firewall appliance. Greetings, -- Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff MultiNET Services GmbH Addresse: Bretonischer Ring 7; 85630 Grasbrunn; Germany Tel: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 0 Fax: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 21 mob: +49 - 174 - 343 28 75 mail: mi...@multinet.de web: www.multinet.de Sitz der Gesellschaft: 85630 Grasbrunn Registergericht: Amtsgericht München HRB 114375 Geschäftsführer: Günter Jurgeneit, Hubert Martens --- PGP Fingerprint: F919 3919 FF12 ED5A 2801 DEA6 AA77 57A4 EDD8 979B Skype: misch42 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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