<p>Hi List,</p>
<p>I'm using NRPE as the default client installed on *nix machines.</p>
<p>I think key in each monitoring system is that you need to be able to define your thresholds on the level of your monitoring system itself, and not on the clients.<br />(Whether monitoring results are evaluated by the monitoring system or by the monitoring client, that's another story.)</p>
<p>In other words we're using the "dont_blame_nrpe" parameter on all my clients, which offers for us a very powerfull and flexible setup.<br />I (personally) think is the minimum you can expect of a monitoring system is that you don't need to be on the client side to define thresholds.</p>
<p>Anyhow, ... I came to a point where I need to send over regular expressions over nrpe to the remote client, which fails of course because of the hard coded "illegal metacharacters"</p>
<p>Now my request:<br />* It would be nice, if these characters could be defined in the config file, giving a user control.<br />* How can I change the code so these metachars are ignored?</p>
<p>Isn't there a security design which allows such functionality while it being secure?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
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<pre>Jelle Smet
http://www.smetj.net</pre>
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