Advice on Plugin Development

[Eli Stair]

I have absolutely no idea about the actual setup this user has, but my assumption is that they're interfacing with some OOB tool (not the IP of the box itself) i.e. power strip, management processor, STONITH interrupt etc...

And as far as the (valid) concern goes of having devices on your network that can power-control hardware with little to no authentication.... well it happens.  With any luck this is done over SSL and a user:pass pair is checked before any transactions.  I've seen plenty of _bad_ methods, including unauthenticated plaintext HTTP/PUT, raw TCP socket access, and devices that when scanned lock up and power off everything they control :)

All pretty OT for the list, sorry.

/eli

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of C. Bensend
Sent: Sun 12/18/2005 6:50 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Advice on Plugin Development
 

> I need a plugin for Nagios that reboots an external server under certain
> circumstances (no ping response).
>
> There is no "direct connection" between the machine that Nagios runs on
> and the monitored server, so the reboot needs to be initiated via HTTPS
> with several POST parameters, i.e. a "simple" web form.

OK, am I missing something here?

How are you going to be able to do an HTTP POST operation, if the
machine isn't reachable via the network?  ;)

Or do you have something even more wonky going on, like ICMP starting
to fail before the machine goes away?


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