Monitor remote server over the internet

Anthony Montibello amontibello at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 22:20:48 CEST 2007


I am sure there are many ways to accomplish this,
the method  you proposed looks ok to me,
However shouldn't security should be thought of first if your sending over
the internet as opposed to behind your firewall.

Other suggestions may include looking into
check_by_ssl (Although I never tried this)
NRPE (which should support encription)
NC_NEt (using passive checks and setting up external NSCA and encription)
Setting up a remote Nagios server at the client site (it does not need to be
a new server with fast processor for only a few hosts) then VPN it to your
Nagios host.

TOny (author of NC_NEt)

On 7/19/07, Paul Broadwith <paul.broadwith at blueivy.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sure I've seen documentation on this, but can't now find it!
>
> Can somebody point me in the direction of some docs on how to get Nagios
> to monitor remote systems over the internet?
>
> The scenario I have is I want to monitor a number of customer Windows
> servers over the internet.
>
> Would it be as straightforward as installing the Windows client and
> redirecting the NS Client port at the gateway to the Windows client to
> allow Nagios to get the relevant data from the internal Windows bits and
> pieces. Once I have it up and running I can secure it.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
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> andservice_perfdata_file_processing_command
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> Hello
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> I have setup nagios.cfg step by step as explained in Nagiosgraph README
> file
> but Nagios is not running the
> *service_perfdata_file_processing_command*,
> so rrd files can not be created.
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> any idea why the command is not executed.
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