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Learning Nagios 3.0

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Learning Nagios 3.0

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Nagios 3.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Sending results over NSCA


Now that our NSCA server is up and running, we can continue with actually submitting results over the network. We will need the send_nsca client binary on all of the machines that will report passive check results to Nagios.

There are various prebuilt binaries available at NagiosExchange, including a native Win32 binary, which allows the sending of results from any check using NSCA. As it is a prebuilt version, there is no need to compile or install it. Simply copy the binary to a Windows machine, and it can be used with any valid NSCA client configuration.

As with the NSCA server, the client uses a configuration file. This requires the specification of the password and encryption_method parameters. A sample configuration that can be used in conjunction with the configuration for a server created earlier:

password=ok1ij2uh3yg
encryption_method=1

The NSCA client accepts the status results that should be sent out to the server on standard input. Each line indicates...