A question regarding nagios-statd-{client, server} and NRPE

[Ryan Steele]

Morris, Patrick wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ryan Steele [mailto:steele at agora-net.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:21 PM
>> To: Morris, Patrick
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] A question regarding 
>> nagios-statd-{client,server} and NRPE
>>
>> Patrick,
>>
>> While convenient in this case, it defeats the purpose of 
>> Debian's extensive package management tools; it just isn't 
>> maintainable with respect to scaling.  However, it is 
>> interesting to note that nagios-statd works with Nagios2.  On 
>> my Debian boxes - and, according to packages.debian.org - it 
>> basically boils down to this:
>>
>>     nagios-statd-client: Depends: nagios
>>
>> I'm sure there is good reason for this dependency, though 
>> I've not taken a look at the package with enough scrutiny to 
>> know why.  I also notice, however, that development in the 
>> nagios-statd vein seems to have stopped in 2004?
>>
>>     http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-statd.html
>>
>> So, that's where my assumption of NRPE succeeding it came 
>> from... but I may be incorrect in that assumption.  I guess 
>> I'll have to continue researching.... 
>>
>> Thanks for your response, and any other advice is most 
>> certainly welcome.
>>     
>
> Hang on a sec... We're talking about nagios-stat here, right?  That's
> the Nagios-side client, and probably *should* depend on Nagios, since
> it's relatively useless without it.
>
> What are the dependencies for nagios-statd-server (the nagios-statd
> script), which is what you'd want installed on the remote machines that
> don't have Nagios on them?
>   
Well, I think this discussion is sort of moot now, as I've found that 
NRPE does in fact seem to supersede nagios-statd-{client,server}.  The 
nagios-statd client/server combo (for which development has been 
stopped) limited you to only a handful of hardcoded checks.  NRPE 
client/server gives you the ability to remotely check _anything_ that 
you have a plugin for.  So, for example, if the LDAP port is blocked to 
anything external to a given cluster, but you still want to check if it 
is running from a remote Nagios server, you could pass the check_ldap 
plugin to NRPE, and you'd have the information you desire.  Thank you 
again for trying to help me understand this!

Best Regards,
Ryan

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