Nagios plugin to copy large text files

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mohr James
> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:16 PM
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios plugin to copy large text files
> 
> Hi All!
> 
> I was wondering if there was a Nagios plug-in that was able to "copy"
> large block of text from the agent to the server. This is related to
the
> "NRPE Character limitation" post I made, but I was thinking of a
> alternate solution. All we are really interested in is getting text
> files (i.e. /var/log/messages) from the clients to
> the server. For various reasons, rsync, ftp, and so forth are out of
the
> question, so we need a different solution. The first thought was nrpe,
> but we have the problem of being able to only send 350 characters. If
> there is no plug-in, does someone have any ideas or suggestions how we
> can solve this problem? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Nagios is not a file management application. NRPE isn't designed to copy
files between hosts. Both are designed solely to execute plugins that
return one line of text and exit with the proper exit code. Instead of
framing your problem to us only as solutions you think might work, why
don't you try to explain what you're trying to accomplish in more
detail. Something like 'I am trying to use nagios to
check|detect|verify|other specific words|phrases|problems in specific
logs|files|other on localhost|other hosts that I can reach by
ssh|snmp|nrpe|other.' The more detail the better. That way, none of us
are constrained by preconceptions. If your final intent is to simply
copy log files from one host to another as you state, nagios is not the
solution. Remote syslog, scp, rsync, ftp, wget and possibly CFEngine are
better suited to that task.

--
Marc


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