NRPEP Update

[Todd A. Green]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:14, Carles Amigó wrote:
> 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?
> 
Unfortunatly no, if the handshaking I added didn't preclude that (which
could be disabled depending on server version #) the encryption method
change would.

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



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