feature request: passive check source address

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest Thomas at zango.com
Mon Aug 21 22:32:40 CEST 2006


You could try with tcpserver (http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp/tcpserver.html)

Instead of running NSCA directly you run can a script that use the
environment variables set by tcpserver to log to a file or syslog, then the
script exec to nsca.

Thomas

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> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Thomas Sluyter
> Sent: August 21, 2006 5:26
> To: Nagios-Devel Nagios-Devel
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] feature request: passive check source address
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering whether it would be possible to modify Nagios 
> (or the  
> NSCA daemon) in such a way that it logs the source address for an  
> incoming service status update. Might seem a bit superfluous 
> to most,  
> but would you believe that in the environment we're working in right  
> now most people don't even know -which systems- are submitting the  
> passive checks? o_O
> 
> Having this extra field in a log file somewhere would make  
> troubleshooting much easier. It would also allow us to do some  
> additional checking to safeguard ourselves against spoofing.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> 
> Thomas
> 
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