Re: [Nagios-users] Question about using the NSCA addon

2009-01-16 Thread Matthew Tice
Thanks for the responses. The reason I didn't want to go the NSCA client route is that I didn't want to have to deploy a binary to each node I'm monitoring - really it just comes down to keeping things as simple as I can (which you wouldn't be able to tell based upon what I'm requesting). Anthony

Re: [Nagios-users] Question about using the NSCA addon

2009-01-16 Thread Mattias Ryrlén
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 12:13 -0700, Matthew Tice wrote: > I'm interested in using the nsca addon - but only the daemon. I > thought I could just open an tcp connection to the daemon and send my > update manually: You can setup a netcat listener on your nagios host, create a script similar to this

Re: [Nagios-users] Question about using the NSCA addon

2009-01-15 Thread Anthony Montibello
Hi Matt, Sorry to let you know your a bit off, If you review the Source code of NSCA or NRPE it is NOT expecting a string, it is expecting a particular formated byte array. where the begining of the Array is tested for Version# and Timestamps validation before event thinking about data. It is qu

[Nagios-users] Question about using the NSCA addon

2009-01-15 Thread Matthew Tice
I'm interested in using the nsca addon - but only the daemon. I thought I could just open an tcp connection to the daemon and send my update manually: echo "3\t1\tmt-ubuntu\tSMTP Availability\tFAIL\n" | netcat nocnag02 5667 I set the value decryption_method=0 in the server config file (because I