Nagios and Firewall/NAT
Nazar Kulynych
nazark at auska.com
Thu Jun 29 23:40:16 CEST 2006
Just from implementation prespective on NRPE would be best for my, but
I'd imagine
I'd have to punch a hole in the firewall to allow nagios execure NRPE on
remote host.
Is there a port range?
Morris, Patrick wrote:
> 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-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>> [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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