Accessing the nagios host from the outside: best practice?

[Emmanuel Halbwachs]

Hi again,

This question isn't exactly a nagios issue, but I would like to
have advices from experienced people.

Currently, my nagios host is on a private network, unreachable from
the Internet, for security's sake. Do you feel this is ok or do you
think it's better to put nagios on a public Internet host (HTTPS, of
course)? The latter would have some firewall issues to reach the
NRPE on private hosts.

If nagios is on a private network, what is the best practice to
access to the web interface from everywhere? To set a reverse HTTP
proxy (squid, apache) on the public network? Other solutions?

Does it work with HTTPS (I don't want passwords in clear on the
Internet)?

Thanks for any hint,

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Emmanuel Halbwachs              Labo. de Photonique et Nanostructures
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