Couldn’t you just use a passive monitoring solution and have the remote hosts sending their data in?
Dan > On Jan 16, 2015, at 5:43 PM, Lee Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey All, > > It's great to see Naemon continuing to improve. > > One thing that still concerns me is that although things are being added for > doing distributed monitoring (DNX) but it seems focused on hosts run within a > single enterprise or private WAN. > > I've worked for a couple of MSPs and one of the biggest issue we had was that > the distributed monitoring nagios installs needed to have inbound connections > allowed to them each of which required a unique public IP (not port NAT) > which meant it was very wasteful for large deployments. > > Ideally I'd like to see Naemon support a method whereby the remote monitoring > hosts establish an outbound connection to the central host using ports that > are not only secure but also easy to get through firewalls. HTTPS seems not a > bad choice for this. This would also make Naemon a possible candidate for a > cloud based solution. > > By implementing it this way it would be very easy to deploy hosts practically > anywhere although I fully understand that the complexity of implementing this > could be very high. > > Any thoughts? > > Lee >
