A question regarding nagios-statd-{client, server} and NRPE

[Morris, Patrick]

Nagios-statd works fine with Nagios 2. 

Nagios-stat is just a single Python script.  If your package is
insisting on installing Nagios, you can just grab that single script and
drop it in place on your new servers.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Ryan Steele
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:06 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] A question regarding 
> nagios-statd-{client,server} and NRPE
> 
> Just as a small preamble, I'm running Debian.
> 
> I've recently acquired some new machines, and I'm upgrading 
> them all to Nagios2.5.  I've noticed that in the old Nagios 
> configs, there are references to commands that call 
> /usr/bin/nagios-stat (for example,
> check_disk_statd:  /usr/bin/nagios-stat -d $ARG1$ disk 
> $HOSTADDRESS$).  
>  From what I've been able to ascertain, this binary utility 
> shipped with nagios-statd-client.  However, 
> nagios-statd-client depends on the "nagios" package.  Since I 
> have nagios2 installed and not nagios, I cannot install 
> nagios-statd-client as the dependencies aren't met.
> 
> I did, however, see that there is a plugin called NRPE, which 
> doesn't depend on nagios2...and I'm thinking this might be 
> what I need.  So, I guess my question is, "What package(s) 
> is/are meant to replace nagios-statd-client for nagios2?"
> 
> I'm doing my best to seamlessly transition, but I need the 
> check commands that rely on the binaries that seem to be 
> associated with nagios-statd-client.  Any advice/suggestions? 
>  Thanks alot in advance,

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