difference between check_by_ssh / check_nrpe

[Paul L. Allen]

gottfried hufnagel writes: 

> what is the main difference between check_by_ssh  and check_nrpe?

Others have mentioned the performance difference.  There is also a security
difference.  Somebody who can sniff your packets and knows how to spoof
IP addresses can get all the monitoring info from the remote machines.  The
only form of authentication used is restricting queries to a particular IP
address using TCP wrappers, so a spoofed IP will allow an eavesdropper to
get results that he can decrypt.  That may or may not be a problem for you. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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