NRPEP Update

[Carles Amigó]

It's a nice to see someone is working on nrpep.

With your changes, will it be possible to connect with latest client
versions of nrpep to older ones as daemon?

El vie, 13-12-2002 a las 00:51, Todd A. Green escribió:
> 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
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