Distributed monitoring vs nrpe
Subhendu Ghosh
sghosh at sghosh.org
Thu Mar 18 19:48:32 CET 2004
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, James Bowes wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I'm in the process of getting a client onto nagios monitoring. I have a
> central server in the office and was considering deploying a distributed
> server to the client's office. I am wondering about these issues:
>
> 1. Is the plugin checking for nrpe safe and secure? It seems to be. So
> wold anyone be able to describe it to me? I'm not against it though I
> haven't really read up on it enough...
NRPE uses a CA-less SSL connection
>
> 2. Is a distributed server the best way to handle things? I am really
> only checking a router, a printer and a single server. On the server
> I'll be checking mandatory services on a W2K box and Exchange services.
you may do just fine with NRPE and NSClient or NREP_NT
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-sg
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