Nagios passive checks, client?

[Greg Pangrazio]

What kind of hosts are you monitoring on the remote end?

Greg Pangrazio





On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Rikard Dahlberg <rik.dahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm fairly new to nagios, and im hoping that someone of you have had a
> similiar situation which i am currently facing.
> The active servers i got on my local network is being monitored fine, with
> all the services i have written.
>
> BUT, how do i monitor a server BEHIND a firewall? can i filter on ports on
> the firewall to accept active checks from nagios, or can i walk around the
> problem by configuring pasive checks? Meaning klient -> server, instead of
> server -> klient.
> Ive read that this particular option is when i want to use NSCA, which im
> trying to  get to work, but so far no success. I do want some kind of
> client-agent that sends out notifications to my nagios server, but at this
> point, i havn't got anything to work...
>
> Could someone please help me out? Is nsca the best option? Or are there
> other choices?
>
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