SEND_NSCA mimic login method

[Michal Polonski]

Thanks Steve,
 
The problem is that I have to use VB with send_nsca and I can't seem to hold
its open state, anotherwords, when I call send_nsca to connect to nagios, it
connects fine, but I can't seem to hold the terminal window or std_out in
order to send further status checks etc..
 
if there's another way of embedding send_nsca into VB, I'd be greatful to
hear it. Other than that I'm trying to get VB to connect to Nagios as a
socket connection, the only problem I'm having is authentication, even
without any encryption. How and when to authenticate is the issue.. I've
read through the source code, but it yelds no clues..
 
Thanks again
 
Mike

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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Steve Shipway
Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 2004 7:20 AM
To: michal at abuzz.com.au; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] SEND_NSCA mimic login method


The send_nsca logic is not simple, since it includes checksums and
encryption in its data packet.  This is desirable because it increases
security.... I am currently  deciphering it in order to modify nt_syslog so
that it sends filtered alerts via NSCA instead of syslog (for simplicity)
and it's rather complex.  I already gave up on trying to implement it in
Perl!  I'd say, read the send_nsca source code.  If you can't understand it,
probably the task of writing a client is beyond your current coding skills.
 
Steve

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