Nagios and Firewall/NAT

[Nazar Kulynych]

Just from implementation prespective on NRPE would be best for my, but 
I'd imagine
I'd have to punch a hole in the firewall to allow nagios execure NRPE on 
remote host.

Is there a port range?

Morris, Patrick wrote:
> They serve two very different purposes.  NRPE is used to execute Nagios
> plugins on a remote machine, and NSCA is for submitting check results
> for a remote machine to a Nagios server. 
>
> On most of my installations, I use both.
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
>> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>> Of Nazar Kulynych
>> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:31 PM
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and Firewall/NAT
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> I'm reading an old forum post, and wondering which is better 
>> NRPE vs NSCA
>>
>> Any thoughs?
>>
>>
>> Ken A wrote:
>>     
>>> Install NRPE on the box behind the firewall. It will 
>>>       
>> obviously need to 
>>     
>>> be able to connect to the nagios server through the firewall. By 
>>> default it uses some odd port, but you could tell it to use 
>>>       
>> something 
>>     
>>> your firewall allows (if your firewall is blocking outgoing 
>>> connections at all), so long as that's not disruptive to 
>>>       
>> services on either box.
>>     
>>> Ken
>>> Pacific.Net
>>>
>>>
>>> Nazar Kulynych wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello list,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way nagios can check remote computer that is 
>>>>         
>> behind a firewall.
>>     
>>>> I would like to install nagios on a server that is directly 
>>>> accessible from internet.
>>>> and I would like it to check servers that are behind a firewall.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps there is a client that checks the system, and sends out 
>>>> outages to nagios server?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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