NRPE/NSCA replacement thoughts?

[Max]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Kevin Keane <subscription at kkeane.com> wrote:
> Personally, I'm not sure if there is a single "best way". That is why I keep promoting separating the protocol from the transport. Basically, Nagios protocol data fits into Layer 6 or 7 of the OSI model, while the encryption and authentication really should be handled by layer 4 or 5.

We have written in addtion to our other agents an HTTP-based agent
that uses either RESTful or non RESTful style URLs for requests.

Creating an HTTP RESTful style interface spec would be a pretty clean
way to define a standard without getting into implementation
discussions and would provide a common ground for plugins.

As with SNMP or SSH HTTP comes with a performance price but more and
more with Nagios I am seeing (because it is so flexible) that defining
standards for a user group / org that uses Nagios is much harder than
performance tuning is.

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