NRPE vs NCSA

[Marco Ramos]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 12:14 +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> I want to extend my nagios configuration to cover things like disk space 
> on servers etc so I need to evaluate which is better for this purpose: 
> NRPE or NCSA.

IMHO, you should also consider SNMP. 

Best regards,
Marco Ramos

> I believe that looking at the (very) brief doc that comes with Nagios 
> that NRPE is a server side executor which tells the remote host "go run 
> this plug-in and pass the result back to me", whereas NCSA executes 
> itself on the host side and then sends the result to a listening NCSAd 
> on the monitoring server running Nagios.
> 
> So it comes down to active server initiated test or passive client 
> initiated test.
> 
> While NCSA would reduce load slightly (probably not noticeably though I 
> expect), NRPE would allow for a more centralised way of doing things, 
> especially since I keep my entire nagios config under svn and like to be 
> able to redeploy it centrally.
> 
> Does anybody have any advice as to which I should go with? What have you 
> used and what are your experiences of this?
> 
> -h
> 


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