Richard, resource.cfg is on nagios server. I have implemented as Peter suggested with resource.cfg and it works fine for me. <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:23 AM, White, Richard L <<a href="mailto:rlwhite@illinois.edu">rlwhite@illinois.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> I’m new so forgive a dumb question… Is the resource.cfg on the monitored system or on the Nagios server? If it is on the Nagios server, will the information be sent in plain text to the monitored system? <div> Rich White Service Manager -- Illinois Compass University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign </div> <div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> From: Peter Lecki [mailto:<a href="mailto:plecki@eagency.com" target="_blank">plecki@eagency.com</a>] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:19 AM To: shadih rahman; <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] encrypting or protecting nagios config files </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> You can use the resource.cfg file to store credentials, which is a secured file. Credentials can then be passed as variables to service definitions such as $PASSWORD1$ and it will pull the actual password string from the secured resource file. <div> </div> Peter. <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> From: shadih rahman [mailto:<a href="mailto:shadhin71@gmail.com" target="_blank">shadhin71@gmail.com</a>] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:55 AM To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: [Nagios-users] encrypting or protecting nagios config files All, in commands.cfg or in service definition file we have to enter password community string and such. I was wondering if there is any way to encrypt that or setup a system where those information relayed to nagios process in the memory and there is no way to access them? Please advise on this. Thanks -- Cordially, Shadhin Rahman -- ea926h </div></div></div> </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> -- Cordially, Shadhin Rahman