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10.3.2 Enable NRPE monitoring
Enabling NRPE allows you to execute plug-ins (such as
check_tcp
and
check_ping
) on the remote
Console
server
to monitor serial or network attached remote servers. This will offload CPU load from the
upstream Nagios monitoring machine. This is especially valuable if you are monitoring hundreds or
thousands of hosts. To enable NRPE:
Select
System: Nagios
and check
NRPE Enabled
Enter the details for the user connection to the upstream Nagios monitoring server and again
refer to the sample Nagios configuration example below for details about how to configure
specific NRPE checks.
By default, the
console server
will accept a connection between the upstream Nagios monitoring server
and the NRPE server with SSL encryption, without SSL, or tunneled through SSH. The security for the
connection is configured at the Nagios server.
10.3.3 Enable NSCA monitoring
NSCA is the mechanism that allows you to send passive check results from the remote
console server
to
the Nagios daemon running on the monitoring server. To enable NSCA:
Select
System: Nagios
and check
NSCA Enabled.
Tunneled
SSH
Nagios monitoring host
Program/
script
External
command
fi le
Remote Console Server
Nagios
NSCA
send_nsca
Remote Managed devices
Nagios
check_serial
Tunneled
SSH
check_nrpe
check_tcp
Remote managed
devices
Remote Console Server
Nagios monitoring host
Serial
Network
NRPE