configuring nsca

[Luke A. Kanies]

Hi all,

I am interested in using nsca for transferring monitoring information from 
each of my hosts to a central host, e.g., procs and load information. 
This seems to be what nsca was designed for, but I haven't seen any 
examples using nsca except for distributed monitoring.  This is kind of 
distributed monitoring, but it's more just having each host do a portion 
and having the central host do a portion.  I like the idea of using nsca 
instead of nrpe because it makes each host a bit more autonomous, and I 
plan on autogenerating each host's configuration on the host itself.

Is everyone instead using nrpe for this?  I know one of the problems with 
trying to use nsca for this is that I have to configure the client to 
perform the checks and transfer the information, and then I have to 
configure the server to do the passive checks.

If I want to use nsca instead of nrpe on each host, then I assume that 
means I also need to run a nagios daemon on each host?  I know that I 
could also just run the checks manually, but I'd find myself recreating 
all of the scheduling and such that nagios already has built-in, so it 
would be a bit silly.

Pointers would be greatly appreciated,
Luke

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