[Nagios-users] Nagios client merge NSCA/NRPE

[Hans Engelen]

Slightly confused on what it is you need here.

Personally I never really liked NSCA, as for NRPE it's better but
still has issues (such as manual work is needed to configure and set
up the checks on the remote end). I think this is similar to what you
are saying.

I must admit I have been playing with some ideas along those lines
myself lately but for me the more urgent priority was to get NSCA out
of the mix. I chose to go with an EMS (enterprise messaging system) as
my means of communication. Currently I have a few passive checks
running as that. Because of the somewhat exotic software we have
running I usually end up coding my own passive checks and I wanted to
get rid of having to fork out to send_nsca. The main reason being that
I needed more feedback on the actual submission of the check results
(loosing the check results on something that runs but once per day is
a pretty big thing for me) to make sure the submission was successful.

As such I am currently using IBM Websphere MQ to handle the messaging
back and forth.

Next on my list was NRPE, although I am still thinking that through
since there is far more to take care of. Part of that would be pushing
out updated plugins to the remote host.

By the way, why IBM Websphere MQ, simple, it has api's for almost
every programming language I use (in fact all of them).

On the Nagios side I am currently using a fairly simple perl script
(currently cronned) that feeds back into the external command file
though I might go with an actual module that hooks into the nagios
process later if the need arises (although I don't really want to if I
can help it).

Cheers,
Hans

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Bo Philip Larsen <boph at tdchosting.dk> wrote:
> I need to find a client to use with nagios, it should be using passive
> communication like "nsca", it also should use standard nagios plugins and be
> configured with an nrpe.cfg like syntax it would be nice if each service
> check could be scheduled individual in the client configfile without using
> cron.
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> The client will be used on various *nix systems
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> Does anyone know if that type of client exists or have anyone a clue or
> interest in developing this ?
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> The background: we are using nagios in a distributed network with nrpe on
> 1000+ hosts and a company merges have given us 2000+ hosts more using
> various monitoring systems like bigb using passive communication and the
> active communication is on an option for now. We are using nagconf
> (http://nagconf.naguser.dk) as configtools and would like to be able to
> config/manage the monitoring on all servers and clients from a central site.
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> Regards
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> Bo
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