Nagios LAN or DMZ?

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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shacky wrote:
| Hi!
|
| I'm installing Nagios because I need to remote monitor some customers'
server.
| I need an advise from you.
| I have two servers in my office, one in the DMZ network and another on
| the LAN network.
| I am undecided on what of these two servers it is better to install
Nagios.
| I need to monitor my internal LAN servers with NRPE (and I don't want
| to make two installations of Nagios), so if I install Nagios on the
| DMZ server I must forward the packets to the nrpe port from the DMZ
| network to the LAN network.

Install Nagios on the LAN. Then let Nagios contact the NRPE instance in
your DMZ.

That way you have only to allow a session from your LAN to your DMZ
which is the more common way to allow traffic through a firewall.

Hugo.

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