Cygwin and nrpe

[Rusch, Daniel]

All,

I have successfully compiled and run nrpe on a windows box in a cygwin
shell.  I then was able to have my nagios host execute an nrpe command
against the nrpe daemon running in the cygwin shell on the windows box and
the daemon returned the correct data.

Has anyone actually done this in a production environment?  Are there
security concerns (other than the obvious like ensure telnet is disabled)?
Stability concerns?  

Can Cygwin run as a service under windows?

I was able to get nrpe to run (or appear to run ) without cygwin running but
without cygwin running nrpe doesn't seem to actually listen on a port.  


What we are doing is using nrpe to cascade through several servers to ensure
that the actual path is up (through DMZ's and the like). For example Nagios
is running on server A, nrpe daemon run on servers B, C and D.  Nagios
executes a service for B with a command of check_nrpe!check_c   The daemon
on B then executes check_c which in turn causes server c to execute check_d.
This works great as long as all boxes are unix or all are unix and the last
one is windows running nsclient.  

Unfortunately some of the systems us windows boxes in the middle of the
system and this breaks the chain. With cygwin I believe I can over come this
problem.

Sincerely,

Daniel G. Rusch
 


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