New Question: NSClient Test

Mark Weaver mweaver at compinfosystems.com
Sat Mar 14 15:48:22 CET 2009


heh... yeah... just after I hit send I happen do search for it in the 
book and found out what it is. How come that's not included in the main 
nagios package?

Although from what I've seen so far there's a discrepancy between the 
book and the configure script in the download.

Christoph Stoettner wrote:
> You find NSCA on www.nagios.org <http://www.nagios.org> -> Download -> 
> Nagios-Addons -> NSCA
>
> Greetz
> Stoeps
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Mark Weaver 
> <mweaver at compinfosystems.com <mailto:mweaver at compinfosystems.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ok... now my noobie is stickin out again. what and where is the
>     NSCA on
>     the linux box? I haven't heard of that one.
>
>     Mattias Ryrlén wrote:
>     > 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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