NRPE/NSCA replacement thoughts?

[Morris, Patrick]

Michael Medin wrote:
> Hello
>
> Since I am pondering a replacement for the NSCA and NRPE protocol I 
> thought I would get some thoughts from the community?
> So this is pretty much an "open floor" kind of thing to get some sense 
> of what people actually need and would want (if anything at all).
> But to get some general idea I'll give you a few questions to start it off:
>
> Is a new protocol a good idea?
>
> Should a new protocol be "flat text based" or structured?
>
> Would webservices be the best way?
>
> Should the protocol be extensible?
>
> What features would a new protocol need to support?
>   - message, performance data, configuration, multiple queries, control 
> logic transfer, inventory, etc.
>
> What plattforms would it need to support?
>
> Whats polling scheme(s): active, passive, active/passive, proxy, etc?
>
> Master/slave scenarios?
> In both NRPE and NSCA "nagios" is the master should the client be 
> allowed to act as master?
>
> What kind of security mechanisms do you need (host, password, 
> encryption, certificates, etc)?
>
> Client side "checks" or client side data gathering with server side checks?
> (ie. check_nrpe get "ok" back, another option would be to get the 
> "value" and let the server decide if it is good or bad.)
>
> Multiple streams?
> ie  send to both Nagios and potentially other collectors (like rrd)
>
>   

For what it's worth, I'm pretty happy with NSCA and NRPE as-is, though 
I'd be interested to hear your motivation for replacing them (especially 
the resons for replacing them outright instead of extending the existing 
apps).

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