New check script: check_nsca

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Sluyter
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 6:29 AM
> To: Nagios Users Mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] New check script: check_nsca
> 
> I can't believe I'm the first one to think of this. o_O
> 
> NSCA is vitally important to most of our Nagios environments and
> nobody has bothered to verify that the daemon itself works properly?
> 
> At my current client we've run into many occasions where the NSCA
> daemon was running, but was not transferring message to Nagios
> itself. So while things -look- hunkydory, we were actually missing a
> lot of incoming messages (remember that Nagios just repeats the last
> status if it doesn't receive any new status updates).

It's a useful plugin to be sure but doesn't Freshness Checking address
this problem? 

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/freshness.html

--
Marc 

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