best way to check host via a relay

[Marc Powell]

On Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:01 AM, Steve shared with us:

> Whats the best way to run checks from a remote system to a host
> withour setting up a entire nagios system. 
> 
> Already have nagios at site A running checking systems, now we have
> Site B which also wants to monitor the same hosts, is there a way to
> setup a remote checking 'agent' that will communicate the event sback
> to the main nagio server running at site A.   


If you want to have your main host schedule when those checks are to
occur then NRPE is your ticket. NCAP is something else that might be
useful (it's new though and I haven't used it before). Both are
available at http://www.nagios.org/download/extras.php. If you're not
wanting your central nagios host to schedule the check then cron and a
wrapper script to call a plugin and send the results back via NSCA will
work as well. There are actually several ways to implement the latter
depending on what works best for you.

--
Marc


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