nsca and comments questions..

[Marc Powell]

Please always reply on list so that others now, or in the future, can  
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On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:04 PM, matt wells wrote:

> Server1 sends to server2 only.  One way communications.
>
> You mention
> "There's no built-in way to
> replicate comments, acknowledgements, or any other CGI initiated
> action (except forced checks)."
> Is there another way to do this?

Nothing currently exists that I am aware of but there are certainly  
ways to do it.

-	create a client/daemon similar to NSCA that can send arbitrary  
external commands to the nagios external command pipe on remote machines
- 	write an event-broker module that intercepts those events and sends  
appropriate commands to the above client or
- 	tail -f nagios.log looking for those events and send appropriate  
commands to the above client.

The client/daemon might be as simple as an authorized_keys ssh  
(untested) --

ssh nagios at otherhost 'echo "[timestamp] EXTERNALCOMMAND;options" > / 
usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'

I'd probably opt for calling a script, that the key was limited to  
running, that accepted the external command and options as variables  
then wrote to the pipe.

--
Marc

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