NCSA not working, garbage when telnettting
Owen Berry
owen.berry at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 20:28:05 CET 2006
Can we assume that check_test does actually output the check result in
the correct format. I can echo "" to send_nsca and it also says:
0 data packet(s) sent to host successfully.
Owen
On 11/28/06, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to implement ncsa which seems simple enough... except it's
> not working.
>
> I have made the passwords for both the client and server the same. The
> ports are default. I am using the client as follows
>
> check_test | send_nsca -H server -c /etc/nagios/send_nsca.cfg
> 0 data packet(s) sent to host successfully.
>
> At first I thought it might be passwords so I've tried 3 different ones
> on both sides, matched them exactly and eventually reduced then to 8
> chars to be safe.
>
> Then I put encryption=0 on both sides to try to see if even this would
> work, but it didn't, same result.
>
> So I netcatted the port on the server and got the following junk back:
>
>
> # nc server 5667
> ¶DEwu
> b àä0Ø»£ß¿á àSE±ÌCø¥[aà¥åWZb#:FS÷ñÁÙû¢- at SÇ
> ffèx
> ÍÏ('2Layt{f=qaߢ3e¯qµ×
O(RPzQÜË<PFÔ·Ecã¼Il-º!Ê'>Oáf¡Elk^[[?1;2c
>
> # telnet server 5667
> Trying 192.168.1.89...
> Connected to server.mydomain.com
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 3Æòp¨ðK!γg?¶ÈI5tf%U§¬#ZAW
> 4XT,DKNþÖfÊ._idÓÏ)w6MÑx¥ò¬ýý¯EIþXHÔl(r)ë6ÝK
> ApÊHç¹y;«%8.&6ÞlÝÄDz1ugRx_Q_`çÙ#ÄEl÷
> ]^]
> telnet> quit
> Connection closed.
>
>
> What on earth is going on with NSCA?
>
> I thought encryption=0 would send cleartext?
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -h
>
> --
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
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