NRPE/NSCA replacement thoughts?

Michael Schwartzkopff misch at multinet.de
Fri Feb 19 12:05:00 CET 2010


Am Freitag, 19. Februar 2010 11:58:45 schrieb Flyinvap:
> Le Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:28:25 +0100,
>
> Michael Schwartzkopff <misch at multinet.de> a écrit :
> > - SNMPv1 is quite secure if you use ACLs.
>
> Quite secure ? With UDP (spoofing) and a community not encrypted ?
> SNMP : Security Not My Problem ;-)

OK. With ip spoofing you cen send packages. But if you do not the routing back 
you will never receive the answer. So what.

> > - SNMPv3 should not be any problem for any recent hardware.
>
> Yes, but it uses more resources than NRPE so you can probably check less
> services.

That's why I use SNMPv1 with ACLs.

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