> I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a > nagios instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if > this is not the case.
Let me be the first to correct you -- this is not the case. All you need on the individual machines is the check plugins or scripts you want to run. > Nrpe take the more active approach but this seems weak from a > security point of view to simply test the sender's ip > address. Ip spoofing has been around for a while as I'm sure > everybody here knows... That's why you configure it to only run certain plugins. As long as those can't do any real damage, it's pretty safe. > Then there's net-snmp. I've had a brief look but this is a > little strange and I find it to be a bit complicated > considering I'm not used to using snmp. Also, when I tried it > out against stuff I know has snmp like printers, I couldn't > get any info out of them unless I dropped to > v1 even though after reading the docs I would think > everything modern would use the more secure v3.... It depends on the hardware. There's a lot out there that doesn't support v2, much less v3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
