SEND_NSCA mimic login method

[Andreas Ericsson]

Michal Polonski wrote:
> Hi All! 
> 
> I am trying to use passive checks to be able to send events to nagios.. not
> i know send_nsca can do this , but I'm trying to mimick its functionality
> and do it myself.. 
> 
> I have only got as far as connecting to the socket using hostIP and Port,
> but my question is: how do I authenticate to the nagios server? - do I send
> a passsword in a string formatted in a certain way upon connecting? what's
> the syntax? 
> 
> Searched the net, no help... can anyone here help? 
> 

Why would you want to mimic it when it seems to work just fine as it is?

For an indepth explanation of how send_nsca works, read its 
documentation. If that doesn't help, read its source. It's open, you know.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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