NRPE vs NCSA

[Hari Sekhon]

Marco Ramos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 12:14 +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
>   
>> I want to extend my nagios configuration to cover things like disk space 
>> on servers etc so I need to evaluate which is better for this purpose: 
>> NRPE or NCSA.
>>     
>
> IMHO, you should also consider SNMP. 
>
> Best regards,
> Marco Ramos
>
>   
>> I believe that looking at the (very) brief doc that comes with Nagios 
>> that NRPE is a server side executor which tells the remote host "go run 
>> this plug-in and pass the result back to me", whereas NCSA executes 
>> itself on the host side and then sends the result to a listening NCSAd 
>> on the monitoring server running Nagios.
>>
>> So it comes down to active server initiated test or passive client 
>> initiated test.
>>
>> While NCSA would reduce load slightly (probably not noticeably though I 
>> expect), NRPE would allow for a more centralised way of doing things, 
>> especially since I keep my entire nagios config under svn and like to be 
>> able to redeploy it centrally.
>>
>> Does anybody have any advice as to which I should go with? What have you 
>> used and what are your experiences of this?
>>
>> -h
>>
>>     
>
>
>   
seeing as I've never used snmp (it's on my todo list) I'd need a bit 
more of a guideline than that... How would you get check results, what 
would you run on the client, what would you run on the server?

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon

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