encrypting or protecting nagios config files

[White, Richard L]

I'm new so forgive a dumb question...
Is the resource.cfg on the monitored system or on the Nagios server?
If it is on the Nagios server, will the information be sent in plain text to the monitored system?

Rich White
Service Manager -- Illinois Compass
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: Peter Lecki [mailto:plecki at eagency.com]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 11:19 AM
To: shadih rahman; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] encrypting or protecting nagios config files

You can use the resource.cfg file to store credentials, which is a secured file.  Credentials can then be passed as variables to service definitions such as $PASSWORD1$ and it will pull the actual password string from the secured resource file.

Peter.


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From: shadih rahman [mailto:shadhin71 at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:55 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] encrypting or protecting nagios config files
All,
    in commands.cfg or in service definition file we  have to enter password community string and such.  I was wondering if there is any way to encrypt that or setup a system where those information relayed to nagios process in the memory and there is no way to access them?  Please advise on this.  Thanks

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Cordially,
Shadhin Rahman
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