<div>dear Jeff,</div>
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<div>how about setting up a VPN tunnel between Nagios and the external network?</div>
<div>then via the VPN you will have access to the communicate to the remote hosts.</div>
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<div>One thing to be carefull of is if the remote host is on a DSL and has a dynamic IP assigned by the ISP, instead of a static IP.(in this case passive checks would most likely be a better solution, unless you use some other script to keep the remote Address updated in the Nagios configuration.)
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<div>also NC_NEt allows for configuring Passive checks to nagios, these are configured using NSCA </div>
<div>(NRPE is used to configure Active checks)</div>
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<div>Good luck</div>
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<div>tony (author of NC_NEt)</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Platter</b> <<a href="mailto:jplatter@vortexit.net">jplatter@vortexit.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p>I have a Nagios server setup at my office running version 3.0a5 on centos 4. I have a small client that I would like to monitor their workstations from my Nagios server. They have a small network with five windows workstations and one network printer behind a Linksys router and dsl internet connection. I have been able to setup NSClient++ to work on local windows machines for monitoring but I am not sure how to set it up to work at a remote site with this sort of configuration. I don't have the ability to setup a linux box at the client site to monitor these machines and report back to my main server. Is there any way that I can have one of the windows machines act as a NRPE server and have it check the other boxes or have the other boxes report back to it and then it report back to my main server? Or can I just have all the machines report back directly to my main server?
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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