Thoughts about a custom plugin

[Lennard Bakker]

stan wrote:
> 
>    ------------           -------------        --------------
>    |          |          |            |        |            |
>    | NAGIOS   |----------| DUAL       |        | TARGET     |
>    | Host     |          | HOMED      |---+----|            |
>    |          |          | Machine    |   |    |            |
>    |          |          |            |   |    |            |
>    ------------           -------------   |    --------------
>                                           |
>                                           |    --------------
>                                           |    |            |
>                                           |    | TARGET     |
>                                           +----|            |
>                                           |    |            |
>                                           |    |            |
>                                           |    --------------
>                                           ~
> 
> The Nagios host can get to the dual homed machine, and I can use all the
> standard plugins to get status from it. What I want to do is get status from
> the TARGETS. 
> 
> Are you suggesting using NAPE running on the dual homed machines? And somehow
> using this to query the targets? The web page you pointed out makes me
> believe that NAPE is intended to allow me to execute checks on a reachable
> machine, by using local scripts there, rather than having the NAGIOS machine
> use the more traditional check_* plugins.
> 
> Am I confused?

What about installing a second instance of nagios on the dual homed 
machine (Core logic, no webinterface). And this instance will report his 
results with NSCA to the Nagios host.

See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html for 
documentation.

Lennard




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