Remote host check methods

[Patrick Morris]

check_by_ssh is great, but when you're monitoring thousands of
hosts/services, the overhead can kill you.

NRPE's great in those situations, because it's so lightweight.

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Bill Jacqmein wrote:

> Im a bigger fan of check by ssh for unix like OSes.
> 
> On 3/29/06, Randall Perry <listsub at systame.com> wrote:
> > Got it running, but am having trouble with SSL, which I'll detail in a
> > separate post.
> >
> >
> >
> > Randall Perry wrote:
> > > I'm new to Nagios. Got it configured and running on my monitoring box.
> > > Tried installing NRPE on a remote host running Mac OSX but couldn't get
> > > it to run as daemon or through xinetd.
> > >
> > > There seem to be several methods to check remote hosts including SSH
> > > plugins.
> > >
> > > Just wondering what other's method of choice is for this -- especially
> > > on OSXS.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> >
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