On 3/11/10 9:44 AM Mark Elsen wrote: >> Is this the right way to works with passive checks?
Hi Marks, thanks for your replay. and sorry, but its my first time to play with passive checks. > > - What is the goal of using passive checks ? We have some servers, which are located outside from our network and without a permanent connection to our main nagios server. > A service being defined > as passive , means that the result of the status check,for that > particular service, is not > initiated by NAGIOS but delivered to NAGIOS by an external program, > such as NSCA (for instance). > NRPE determined checks are initiated by NAGIOS (....). how do I have to check the services on the servers which are outside of our network? Do I have to install a hole nagios environment (like a second Nagios server?) or only the nagios-plugins, or something else? Let me explane. muninbsd (FreeBSD 7.3) is my first test server for passive checks. Our Main Nagios Server is running nagios-3.2.0 on a FreeBSD 7.2 STABLE Box. On muninbsd I've installed only the nagios-plugins and nrpe (as above, I'll delete the nrpe package). muninbsd# pkg_info | grep -i nagio nagios-plugins-1.4.14,1 Plugins for Nagios nrpe-2.12_1 Nagios Remote Plugin Executor to send the checks results I'll install NSCA (server or client?). sorry for my stubid questions, but after reading some documentation, I can't see any light ... many thanks Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
