Nagios passive checks, client?

[Greg Pangrazio]

If they are just windows, i would check out check_nt and the NSClient.
 I use that to monitor about 20 hosts and probably 200 services behind
a firewall.

That requires a client software to be installed on the windows boxes
though.  Some people balk at that.

I do go the passive route as well but that requires a host in the
network to do the "active" side of the check or a client on each
system.

I like the reporting I get out of the NSClient a bit better personally.

Greg Pangrazio





On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Rikard Dahlberg
<rik.dahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> only a couple of windows servers... (sadly ;) )
> im however planning on monitor the firewall, but that is for later ..
>
>> From: pangrazi at gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:59:07 -0600
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios passive checks, client?
>>
>> What kind of hosts are you monitoring on the remote end?
>>
>> Greg Pangrazio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Rikard Dahlberg <rik.dahlberg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > I'm fairly new to nagios, and im hoping that someone of you have had a
>> > similiar situation which i am currently facing.
>> > The active servers i got on my local network is being monitored fine,
>> > with
>> > all the services i have written.
>> >
>> > BUT, how do i monitor a server BEHIND a firewall? can i filter on ports
>> > on
>> > the firewall to accept active checks from nagios, or can i walk around
>> > the
>> > problem by configuring pasive checks? Meaning klient -> server, instead
>> > of
>> > server -> klient.
>> > Ive read that this particular option is when i want to use NSCA, which
>> > im
>> > trying to  get to work, but so far no success. I do want some kind of
>> > client-agent that sends out notifications to my nagios server, but at
>> > this
>> > point, i havn't got anything to work...
>> >
>> > Could someone please help me out? Is nsca the best option? Or are there
>> > other choices?
>> >
>> >
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