NRPE_NT vs. NSClient

[Phil Costelloe]

From: Sand Philipp [mailto:Philipp.Sand at sycor.de] 

>> Only problem I have found with nsclient (I use 
>> V201) is that on some w2k and most win 2003 machines, the 
>> default port (1248) ends up in use by something else, which 
>> results in the client not allowing the Nagios server to 
>> connect to the machine. There is a message in the application 
>> event log - forget what it is. When this happens, you can't 
>> stop the nsclient service, and all you can do is change the 
>> port number via regedit, and then reboot the machine. Yuck. 
>> Changing the port used by nsclient to a different one (I use 
>> 2323) resolves the problem.
>
>The Port issue is right...but hell, you don't have to reboot your
>server just because you Did some changes to the nsclient port!

The reboot isn't because the port has been changed, it's because
the service has hung. I think you can find the underlying process
and kill it but sometimes a reboot is easier.

Phil


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