encrypting or protecting nagios config files

shadih rahman shadhin71 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 9 15:06:47 CET 2009


Richard,
    resource.cfg is on nagios server.  I have implemented as Peter suggested
with resource.cfg and it works fine for me.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, White, Richard L <rlwhite at illinois.edu>wrote:

>  I’m new so forgive a dumb question…
>
> Is the resource.cfg on the monitored system or on the Nagios server?
>
> If it is on the Nagios server, will the information be sent in plain text
> to the monitored system?
>
>
>
> Rich White
> Service Manager -- Illinois Compass
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>   ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Peter Lecki [mailto:plecki at eagency.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2009 11:19 AM
> *To:* shadih rahman; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] encrypting or protecting nagios config files
>
>
>
> You can use the resource.cfg file to store credentials, which is a secured
> file.  Credentials can then be passed as variables to service definitions
> such as $PASSWORD1$ and it will pull the actual password string from the
> secured resource file.
>
>
>
> Peter.
>
>
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* shadih rahman [mailto:shadhin71 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 06, 2009 8:55 AM
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] encrypting or protecting nagios config files
>
> All,
>     in commands.cfg or in service definition file we  have to enter
> password community string and such.  I was wondering if there is any way to
> encrypt that or setup a system where those information relayed to nagios
> process in the memory and there is no way to access them?  Please advise on
> this.  Thanks
>
> --
> Cordially,
> Shadhin Rahman
> -- ea926h
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-- 
Cordially,
Shadhin Rahman
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