Remote Checks

[Morris, Patrick]

> I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a 
> nagios instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if 
> this is not the case.

Let me be the first to correct you -- this is not the case.  All you
need on the individual machines is the check plugins or scripts you want
to run.

> Nrpe take the more active approach but this seems weak from a 
> security point of view to simply test the sender's ip 
> address. Ip spoofing has been around for a while as I'm sure 
> everybody here knows...

That's why you configure it to only run certain plugins.  As long as
those can't do any real damage, it's pretty safe.

> Then there's net-snmp. I've had a brief look but this is a 
> little strange and I find it to be a bit complicated 
> considering I'm not used to using snmp. Also, when I tried it 
> out against stuff I know has snmp like printers, I couldn't 
> get any info out of them unless I dropped to
> v1 even though after reading the docs I would think 
> everything modern would use the more secure v3....

It depends on the hardware. There's a lot out there that doesn't support
v2, much less v3.

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