Firewalled hosts

[Tedman Eng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Stevenson [mailto:monitoring_with_nagios at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 3:02 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Firewalled hosts
> 
> 
> Everyone -- As you're about to find out I am new to
> Nagios. I have a question about passive checks. I have
> a remote network, accesible only by a single public IP
> address. Behind the firewall that is bound to that IP
> address are 5 Windows 2003 hosts. I've looked into
> monitoring performance on these hosts with the
> Nsclient.  So good so far. 
> 
> What I'm actually having trouble with is this: can I
> have the Windows hosts send the results of the of the
> Nsclient checks back to the Nagios server across the
> Internet? Of course I would have to have a port
> forwarded from the firewall on the "local" network to
> the Nagios server in order to accept the data sent
> from the Windows server. How can I send the check
> results from the Windows servers to the Nagios server?
> 
> Maybe I've missed this in TFM if someone could point
> me in the right direction or give advise, it would be
> much appreciated.

You've only missed it in TFM because you didn't actually R it.


Here's the section in the docs about your question:

"NSCA - Daemon and client program for sending passive check results across
the network"
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/addons.html#nsca

Download it here:
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Communication.41.0.html
(windows send_nsca program)




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