Cygwin and nrpe

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I wouldn't say it's stupid at all.  It's always interesting to see the
creative juices flowing, provided they don't wash you out to sea.  ;)

Now that you are able to compile/run nrpe under cygwin, I'd be curious to
know if there are any (open source/freeware/shareware) utils which act as a
'wrapper' for programs, letting you run them as a service, in a sort of
bare-bones, hackneyed way.

Just adding my own juices to the punch mix....

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rusch, Daniel [mailto:Daniel.Rusch at GlobalCrossing.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: Nagios-User (E-mail)
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Cygwin and nrpe
> 
> 
> I posted this last week, am I to assume by the overwhelming 
> lack of response
> that I am the only one trying this?  Does that mean this is, 
> hmm, stupid??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DR
> 
> All,
> 
> I have successfully compiled and run nrpe on a windows box in a cygwin
> shell.  I then was able to have my nagios host execute an nrpe command
> against the nrpe daemon running in the cygwin shell on the 
> windows box and
> the daemon returned the correct data.
> 
> Has anyone actually done this in a production environment?  Are there
> security concerns (other than the obvious like ensure telnet 
> is disabled)?
> Stability concerns?  
> 
> Can Cygwin run as a service under windows?
> 
> I was able to get nrpe to run (or appear to run ) without 
> cygwin running but
> without cygwin running nrpe doesn't seem to actually listen 
> on a port.  
> 
> 
> What we are doing is using nrpe to cascade through several 
> servers to ensure
> that the actual path is up (through DMZ's and the like). For 
> example Nagios
> is running on server A, nrpe daemon run on servers B, C and D.  Nagios
> executes a service for B with a command of check_nrpe!check_c 
>   The daemon
> on B then executes check_c which in turn causes server c to 
> execute check_d.
> This works great as long as all boxes are unix or all are 
> unix and the last
> one is windows running nsclient.  
> 
> Unfortunately some of the systems us windows boxes in the 
> middle of the
> system and this breaks the chain. With cygwin I believe I can 
> over come this
> problem.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Dan
>  
> 
> 
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