NRPEP Update

[Todd A. Green]

If anyone is interested...

NRPEP Nagios/Netsaint Remote Plugin Execution/Perl is a PERL
implementation of remote execution of Nagios/Netsaint plugins similar to
NRPE.

The original version (<0.3) was written by Adam Jacob ~1999.

In 2000 I started making minor buglet fixes and in early 2001 Adam
agreed to let me take over the project.

It had stalled along at 0.2a (bugfixes) until I started my new Managed
Services company at which point I was able to continue my work with
Netsaint and then Nagios.

The first change I made was to remove Crypt::TripleDES as the cipher
after running into some issues with it.  The current version 0.3.4 uses
the PERL Mcrypt interface which will allow for much greater flexibility
in the end users choice of encryption techniques.  Currently I've coded
to Blowfish, but will move the encryption choice to the configuration
files.

I've also reworked the internal logic to add verification of remote end
(are we really talking to NRPEP?), shared secret comparison (Ack our
secrets don't match!), and a little better check command error handling.

Last thing I added (today) was a default check_nrpep command
'check_nrpep'.  This allows you to verify the remote NRPEP server is
available for further queries.

I plan to put this all back together into a tarball and start (yet
another) SourceForge project for it, but thought I'd check the interest
here first.

Let me know if your interested...

Thanks

-- 
Todd A. Green <tagreen at mhsnetworks.net>
Managed Hosting Soutions, Inc.



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