New Question: NSClient Test
Christoph Stoettner
info at stoeps.de
Sat Mar 14 15:31:11 CET 2009
You find NSCA on www.nagios.org -> Download -> Nagios-Addons -> NSCA
Greetz
Stoeps
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From: Mark Weaver <mweaver at compinfosystems.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] New Question: NSClient Test
To: nagios-users Listserv <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Ok... now my noobie is stickin out again. what and where is the NSCA on
the linux box? I haven't heard of that one.
Mattias Ryrlén wrote:
> If you configure NSClient to send passive results to Nagios server you
> need to configure and start NSCA on your Linux box.
>
> or you can setup nagios to do active checks with eg check_nt or
> check_nrpe towards the windows box.
>
> Mark Weaver skrev:
>> Yesterday after I got the local servers on the LAN talking to the
>> Nagios server I started to attempt to configure the NSClient on my
>> vista workstation. I got the host and hostgroup setup for it and even
>> setup a simple service for it; I believe it was a simple check to see
>> if the host was up (PING).
>>
>> I edited the ini file for the client according to the Nagios
>> documentation and then started the NSClient test program then sat
>> there and watched the screen and the text scolling down. What's got
>> me a little confused is that I kept seeing a response on the output
>> that connections from my workstation were being refused by the Nagios
>> server. The ini file is set to contact the nag server on the default
>> port according to the Documentation so I'm at a loss as to why the
>> Nag server wasn't accepting connections.
>>
>> The Nagios server, Linux CentOS 4.7 doesn't have a firewall running
>> on it so I seriously doubt that the packets are being dropped...
>> (ooops I just remembered something)
>>
>> Is it possible that the port the NSClient communicates on is not
>> enabled in the /etc/services file? If that service port isn't enabled
>> in that file then it may be that nothing will answer on incoming
>> connections. Am I close or all wet?
>>
>> Mark
>>
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