NSCA with Nagios

[Jonathan Baker]

I don't get it, though. If I define a service, it has to have the same name as the remote host service definition (which is local to itself). Fine. 
But the service defined on my Nagios central server (with passive_checks_enabled) also needs a check_command. What should this be to get the results of a passive check?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott Sugar 
  To: Jonathan Baker 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 2:05 PM
  Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSCA with Nagios


  you have to have the proper services and hosts defined in your services.cfg file and hosts.cfg file... this means that the service description and host name for each service you are passivly sending needs to be defined at your central server.  
  or... as ethan puts it...
  a.. The central server must have service definitions for all services that are being monitored by all the distributed servers. Nagios will ignore passive check results if they do not correspond to a service that has been defined. 


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  From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Jonathan Baker
  Sent: Wed 7/27/2005 8:03 AM
  To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
  Subject: [Nagios-users] NSCA with Nagios


  Hi there, 

  I can only get the NRPE daemon working on one of my eight machines, so will have to use NSCA for the others. I've got the NSCA daemon running on my central Nagios host and have setup the send_nsca as part of a cron job that sends new results every few minutes. 
  What do I have to setup in my services.cfg in Nagios in order to display the results like regular Nagios services? The documentation for NSCA isn't nearly as complete as the NRPE docs. 

  Little help?
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