bypass firewall

[Andreas Ericsson]

Live Great wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With Nagios and its plug-ins, what is the best way to avoid customer's firewall from blocking the data transfer between centralized Nagios server and the NRPE or Plug-ins installed in customer's servers?
> 
> I basically don't want to change customer's security policies, but still allow the centralized remote monitoring to be in-placed with Nagios.
> 

Ask them for a port you can use. There is no easy and reliable way to bypass
a firewall without the cooperation of the people administering it. If there
was, firewalls wouldn't be so popular.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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