New Question: NSClient Test

Mattias Ryrlén mattias.ryrlen at op5.com
Sat Mar 14 09:22:14 CET 2009


If you configure NSClient to send passive results to Nagios server you 
need to configure and start NSCA on your Linux box.

or you can setup nagios to do active checks with eg check_nt or 
check_nrpe towards the windows box.

Mark Weaver skrev:
> Yesterday after I got the local servers on the LAN talking to the Nagios 
> server I started to attempt to configure the NSClient on my vista 
> workstation. I got the host and hostgroup setup for it and even setup a 
> simple service for it; I believe it was a simple check to see if the 
> host was up (PING).
> 
> I edited the ini file for the client according to the Nagios 
> documentation and then started the NSClient test program then sat there 
> and watched the screen and the text scolling down. What's got me a 
> little confused is that I kept seeing a response on the output that 
> connections from my workstation were being refused by the Nagios server. 
> The ini file is set to contact the nag server on the default port 
> according to the Documentation so I'm at a loss as to why the Nag server 
> wasn't accepting connections.
> 
> The Nagios server, Linux CentOS 4.7 doesn't have a firewall running on 
> it so I seriously doubt that the packets are being dropped... (ooops I 
> just remembered something)
> 
> Is it possible that the port the NSClient communicates on is not enabled 
> in the /etc/services file? If that service port isn't enabled in that 
> file then it may be that nothing will answer on incoming connections. Am 
> I close or all wet?
> 
> Mark
> 
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