Nagios and Firewall/NAT

[Morris, Patrick]

They serve two very different purposes.  NRPE is used to execute Nagios
plugins on a remote machine, and NSCA is for submitting check results
for a remote machine to a Nagios server. 

On most of my installations, I use both.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Nazar Kulynych
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:31 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and Firewall/NAT
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> I'm reading an old forum post, and wondering which is better 
> NRPE vs NSCA
> 
> Any thoughs?
> 
> 
> Ken A wrote:
> > Install NRPE on the box behind the firewall. It will 
> obviously need to 
> > be able to connect to the nagios server through the firewall. By 
> > default it uses some odd port, but you could tell it to use 
> something 
> > your firewall allows (if your firewall is blocking outgoing 
> > connections at all), so long as that's not disruptive to 
> services on either box.
> >
> > Ken
> > Pacific.Net
> >
> >
> > Nazar Kulynych wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> Is there a way nagios can check remote computer that is 
> behind a firewall.
> >> I would like to install nagios on a server that is directly 
> >> accessible from internet.
> >> and I would like it to check servers that are behind a firewall.
> >>
> >> Perhaps there is a client that checks the system, and sends out 
> >> outages to nagios server?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >>
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