NRPE

[Andy Shellam]

Quoting Brent Clark <brentgclarklist at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> I have the nrpe on my LAN. My question is. How many of you guys run NRPE
> on a public interface.
>
> Question really is and and for the Lamen, is it safe. Anyone have any
> hack attempts etc.
>

Hi,

We run NRPE on 4 public-facing servers.  All unnecessary ports are  
blocked by a firewall, port 5666 is limited to our Nagios server only,  
and NRPE is configured (through its config file) to only accept  
connections from our Nagios server.

Never had any issues.

Regards,

Andy--
Andy Shellam
Business Systems Architect

Network Mail
NetServe Support

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