Alternatives to NSCA?

Greg Pangrazio pangrazi at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 15:20:37 CET 2009


I just used nsca with encryption turned off and if you need the
security on your local network wrap it in ssl via stunnel.

this works on my rhel5.2 boxes and my Ubuntu servers (which have
libmcrypt in repo)

Greg Pangrazio
pangrazi at gmail.com





On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:05 AM,  <Sascha.Runschke at gfkl.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> does anybody know of a NSCA replacement, which does the job without the need
> of unsupported libraries? The requirement of libmcrypt makes NSCA a real
> hassle
> to use for us, since we have to manually install third party libraries -
> which we really
> do not want to. RedHat won't support libmcrypt, as its development is long
> dead.
>
> Any alternatives out there, my google searches didn't come up with anything
> sadly.
>
> Or might it be easier to patch NSCA to use libgcrypt for example, which is
> available
> in every distribution?
>
> Regards
>         Sascha
>
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