Monitor DB Server without outside IP Address

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, James Pells wrote:

> Right now I am thinking about setting up nagios to do a nrpe_check on a
> different port on my webserver, and configure my firewall to forward that
> port to my dbserver, which will also have the nrpe daemon running on it.
> 
> It seems like that should work, if only I could configure my IP TABLES
> correctly.
> 
> I would appreciate if anyone has any better solutions to this problem.

If I were going to make a recommendation, it would be:

Don't do it.  You're asking for trouble.

There are reasons people don't make their DB boxes available from the
internet.  A couple better solutions might be:

1. Monitor the box from inside the network it's on, or
2. Have the DB submit passive checks to your monitoring box.


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