setting up NSCA

[8lb4fmllhm001 at sneakemail.com]

I've been puzzling over how to properly set up NSCA.  I've successfully installed the server on the Nagios host, that part was straightforward.

The part which is lacking clarity is the send_nsca piece.  I realize it needs to be installed on a client host (compiled for that architecture).  Setting up the config file seems clear.  It would also seem to be a simple matter of catting a file and piping it into send_nsca (assuming it's formatted as required.  But beyond this, this is where it seems to lapse into obscurity.

I recall that the plugins need to be installed on the client as well (or whatever you feel like running, so long as you get the output and return codes that you need).  So I'm guessing you cobble a script (which you kick off every 5 minutes from cron) to run each plugin with the parameters as desired, catch the return codes, stuff them into a temporary file, then pump the tempfile into send_nsca...?

Am I on track here?  Am I missing anything?

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