configuring nsca

[Jason Martin]

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Keep in mind that the central nagios daemon will need to know about all 
the things you are monitoring, or else it will ignore nsca messages 
regarding those services.

- -Jason Martin
 On Thu, 20 May 2004, Luke A. Kanies wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am interested in using nsca for transferring monitoring information from 
> each of my hosts to a central host, e.g., procs and load information. 
> This seems to be what nsca was designed for, but I haven't seen any 
> examples using nsca except for distributed monitoring.  This is kind of 
> distributed monitoring, but it's more just having each host do a portion 
> and having the central host do a portion.  I like the idea of using nsca 
> instead of nrpe because it makes each host a bit more autonomous, and I 
> plan on autogenerating each host's configuration on the host itself.
> 
> Is everyone instead using nrpe for this?  I know one of the problems with 
> trying to use nsca for this is that I have to configure the client to 
> perform the checks and transfer the information, and then I have to 
> configure the server to do the passive checks.
> 
> If I want to use nsca instead of nrpe on each host, then I assume that 
> means I also need to run a nagios daemon on each host?  I know that I 
> could also just run the checks manually, but I'd find myself recreating 
> all of the scheduling and such that nagios already has built-in, so it 
> would be a bit silly.
> 
> Pointers would be greatly appreciated,
> Luke
> 
> 
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