compiling nsca-2.1 under Solaris8

[kf64g001 at sneakemail.com]

DOH!  I missed changing common/common.h :P

Got it to build now....

I'd still be interested in hearing a discussion of the relative merits of NSCA vs. NRPE, though.  :)

> Jackson Sie wrote:
> > Just do search and replace in the nsca source tree for 
> 'u_int32_t' and
> > replace with 'uint32_t'.  That should do the trick.  We had 
> run into a
> > similar problem as well when we were still thinking of using nsca...
> 
> Nope, errors still exist.
> 
> But you bring up a good question:  Why *not* NSCA?
> 
> One thing that's been hammered into me on 
> www.infrastructures.org:  Have the clients contact the 
> central server, not the other way around.
> 
> In the case of NSCA, I own Nagios and root on the monitoring 
> server.  It doesn't matter if someone merely grants me 
> non-root access on their host; I can (once I get NSCA to 
> compile :P ) just install NSCA and the plugins, and off I go.
> 
> In the case of NRPE, I'm guessing one needs root privs...?  I 
> can't say that I've taken a look at this tarball, so don't 
> know if it requires a privileged port.  (I realize that a 
> privileged port isn't required for NSCA.)  I'm also wondering 
> about things like:  scalability on the monitoring server, and 
> (lack of) crypto/authentication on the client.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 


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