Nagios plugin to copy large text files

[Greg Vickers]

Hi James,

Mohr James wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I was wondering if there was a Nagios plug-in that was able to "copy"
> large block of text from the agent to the server. This is related to the
> "NRPE Character limitation" post I made, but I was thinking of a
> alternate solution. All we are really interested in is getting text
> files (i.e. /var/log/messages) from the clients to
> the server. For various reasons, rsync, ftp, and so forth are out of the
> question, so we need a different solution. The first thought was nrpe,
> but we have the problem of being able to only send 350 characters. If
> there is no plug-in, does someone have any ideas or suggestions how we
> can solve this problem? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

I suggest syslog or syslog-ng, these can send a copy of the log files 
from host to host. You will have to wrap them through SSH or a VPN of 
some kind if you are passing this information across an untrusted (isn't 
everything?) network.

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Greg Vickers
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