Morris, Patrick wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ryan Steele [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:21 PM >> To: Morris, Patrick >> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] A question regarding >> nagios-statd-{client,server} and NRPE >> >> Patrick, >> >> While convenient in this case, it defeats the purpose of >> Debian's extensive package management tools; it just isn't >> maintainable with respect to scaling. However, it is >> interesting to note that nagios-statd works with Nagios2. On >> my Debian boxes - and, according to packages.debian.org - it >> basically boils down to this: >> >> nagios-statd-client: Depends: nagios >> >> I'm sure there is good reason for this dependency, though >> I've not taken a look at the package with enough scrutiny to >> know why. I also notice, however, that development in the >> nagios-statd vein seems to have stopped in 2004? >> >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nagios-statd.html >> >> So, that's where my assumption of NRPE succeeding it came >> from... but I may be incorrect in that assumption. I guess >> I'll have to continue researching.... >> >> Thanks for your response, and any other advice is most >> certainly welcome. >> > > Hang on a sec... We're talking about nagios-stat here, right? That's > the Nagios-side client, and probably *should* depend on Nagios, since > it's relatively useless without it. > > What are the dependencies for nagios-statd-server (the nagios-statd > script), which is what you'd want installed on the remote machines that > don't have Nagios on them? > Well, I think this discussion is sort of moot now, as I've found that NRPE does in fact seem to supersede nagios-statd-{client,server}. The nagios-statd client/server combo (for which development has been stopped) limited you to only a handful of hardcoded checks. NRPE client/server gives you the ability to remotely check _anything_ that you have a plugin for. So, for example, if the LDAP port is blocked to anything external to a given cluster, but you still want to check if it is running from a remote Nagios server, you could pass the check_ldap plugin to NRPE, and you'd have the information you desire. Thank you again for trying to help me understand this!
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