A question regarding nagios-statd-{client, server} and NRPE
Ryan Steele
steele at agora-net.com
Tue Nov 14 22:04:10 CET 2006
Morris, Patrick wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ryan Steele [mailto:steele at agora-net.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:21 PM
>> To: Morris, Patrick
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] A question regarding
>> nagios-statd-{client,server} and NRPE
>>
>> Patrick,
>>
>> While convenient in this case, it defeats the purpose of
>> Debian's extensive package management tools; it just isn't
>> maintainable with respect to scaling. However, it is
>> interesting to note that nagios-statd works with Nagios2. On
>> my Debian boxes - and, according to packages.debian.org - it
>> basically boils down to this:
>>
>> nagios-statd-client: Depends: nagios
>>
>> I'm sure there is good reason for this dependency, though
>> I've not taken a look at the package with enough scrutiny to
>> know why. I also notice, however, that development in the
>> nagios-statd vein seems to have stopped in 2004?
>>
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-statd.html
>>
>> So, that's where my assumption of NRPE succeeding it came
>> from... but I may be incorrect in that assumption. I guess
>> I'll have to continue researching....
>>
>> Thanks for your response, and any other advice is most
>> certainly welcome.
>>
>
> Hang on a sec... We're talking about nagios-stat here, right? That's
> the Nagios-side client, and probably *should* depend on Nagios, since
> it's relatively useless without it.
>
> What are the dependencies for nagios-statd-server (the nagios-statd
> script), which is what you'd want installed on the remote machines that
> don't have Nagios on them?
>
Well, I think this discussion is sort of moot now, as I've found that
NRPE does in fact seem to supersede nagios-statd-{client,server}. The
nagios-statd client/server combo (for which development has been
stopped) limited you to only a handful of hardcoded checks. NRPE
client/server gives you the ability to remotely check _anything_ that
you have a plugin for. So, for example, if the LDAP port is blocked to
anything external to a given cluster, but you still want to check if it
is running from a remote Nagios server, you could pass the check_ldap
plugin to NRPE, and you'd have the information you desire. Thank you
again for trying to help me understand this!
Best Regards,
Ryan
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Ryan Steele
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