NRPE protocol

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jason Martin wrote:
> May I suggest that the NRPE protocol be changed to allow a
> banner to be emitted by the daemon upon connection? That'll make
> manual testing that the daemon is operating properly easier as
> well as remote identification.  Network operations technicians
> don't always know how to run check_nrpe against a machine to
> check that NRPE is working, but a lot can be instructed to
> telnet to port 5666 and check the banner.
> 

I think the nrpe --help output should include how to do this. I'm also 
working on a man-page for both nrpe and check_nrpe which will ofcourse 
include this.

> Thanks,
> -Jason Martin

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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