On 5 May 2009, at 19:29, Dennison Williams wrote:

Hello all,

I am converting a vanilla nagios system to opsview.  A large part of my previous setup was done through passive service checks via send_nsca.  My monitored hosts are on completly seperate networks then my monitoring server and I would like a way to collect passive host check results in a secure way.  Earlier today I was advised against using send_nsca with opsview and I was wondering how other opsviewers out there are managing their passive service checks?

Opening up the use of send_nsca can introduce insecurities into your system - you can do it if you can protect you server in other ways, such as allow a limited set of clients send data via nsca and encryption on the link with a common password.  We use nsca to get data between the slaves and the master, so you have to be careful not to break that set up to (if you use slaves).

However, this is outside of our recommended use so currently you'd be on your own doing it this way and any changes you make to code would likely be undone on the next upgrade.

You could set up your own nsca daemon on a different port (perhaps using our nsca daemon binary with your own config file) so that upgrades would not affect it, but again its up to you to keep secure.

  Duncs
 
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