nsca-2.9 compatability

[Andrew Widdersheim]

I haven't looked at NRDP much more than you have but it sounds like it 
would be a fix to many of NSCA's short comings. The problem for us is 
the chore of switching everything over in one shot. 

We don't do 
that much passively so the check results queue feature is actually an 
extra bonus for us in the upgrade. We are actually more interested in 
the longer output. If there is an easy way to make this more compatible 
for with older versions than great. If not we can plan a large upgrade 
of everything or a cut over to NRDP. We just have a problem now and were
 looking for a quick solution without breaking already existing stuff. 

-Andrew W. 

Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:38:44 -0800
From: mike-nagios at 5dninja.net
To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
CC: awiddersheim at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] nsca-2.9 compatability


  


    
  
  
    On 1/11/12 11:16 AM, Andrew Widdersheim wrote:
    
      
      
        I wanted to use Mike Lindsey's new features in nsca-2.9 but
        found that clients on 2.7.2 were not able to communicate after
        updating the server. I found this on the Nagios bug tracker:

        

        http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=78

        

        From what I'm reading it's not possible to have a client and
        server compiled with different MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH. Has this
        been fixed at all and I'm just not finding it?  
      

    
    As far as I'm aware, there's no easy fix for this.  If you cannot
    upgrade your clients, then you can recompile the nsca binary with
    MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH set back to 512.  That should let you use
    the checkresult directory feature, without breaking compatibility
    with older clients.

    

    I'll take another look at the source and see if any options jump out
    at me, but I don't know how much effort I should put into it - I
    think Andreas is actively working on a Better Solution.

    -- 
Mike Lindsey 		 	   		  
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