bypass firewall

[Hari Sekhon]

If they allow outbound connections then you can just use NSCA and 
passive service checks to feed results from inside the firewall's 
boundaries to the Nagios server. Of course, then you have to have a port 
forward to receive it, but that would be a change to your firewall, not 
theirs.

If they fully egress filter as well, then there is no good way around 
it, you need to get them to open a port for you to either forward nrpe 
checks to the inside, or to allow outbound nsca results to be sent back 
to the Nagios server.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Live Great wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With Nagios and its plug-ins, what is the best way to avoid customer's 
> firewall from blocking the data transfer between centralized Nagios 
> server and the NRPE or Plug-ins installed in customer's servers?
>
> I basically don't want to change customer's security policies, but 
> still allow the centralized remote monitoring to be in-placed with Nagios.
>
> Thanks
> SW
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