Cygwin and nrpe

[Atul Gosain]

I wonder why do u want to use nrpe on windows box when nsclient is
allready available for it. Its work is to provide information about ur NT
machine.

> 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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