Monitoring hosts in remote office

[Greg Vickers]

Hi Pavel,

Pavel Santos wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> How can I monitor hosts in a remote location?  What ports does a nagios 
> server use to check its hosts?

Hmm, you've posted on this message board a couple of times, so I'm 
*assuming* a passing familiarity with Nagios...

You don't provide any information on what kind of monitoring you want to 
do to your 'remote location', or what kind of remote location it is. Is 
it an office connected via a VPN or other tunnel? Is it a web/database 
server in a co-lo? Is it a pigeon on top of the Empire State building??

Do you understand that if Nagios does a HTTP check of a remote site that 
there will probably be a port 80 connection from the Nagios server to 
the target host?? To extend this metaphor, if you want to use NSClient 
to check your remote host, RTFM for NSClient and note which port 
NSClient uses...

Please reply to the list.

-- 
Greg Vickers
Project Manager, IT Security
Information Technology Services
Queensland University of Technology
L12, 126 Margaret St, Brisbane

Phone: (07) 3864 9536
Email: g.vickers at qut.edu.au
IT Security web site: http://www.its.qut.edu.au/itsecurity/

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