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by bdmeyer
Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:03 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: How can I monitor if syslog traffic stops being received?
Replies: 5
Views: 2097

Re: How can I monitor if syslog traffic stops being received

I am good to go. Please close the thread. And thank you again.

-= Bruce
by bdmeyer
Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:09 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: How can I monitor if syslog traffic stops being received?
Replies: 5
Views: 2097

Re: How can I monitor if syslog traffic stops being received

Thank you. That gets me going.
-= Bruce
by bdmeyer
Sun Jan 10, 2016 12:50 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: How can I monitor if syslog traffic stops being received?
Replies: 5
Views: 2097

How can I monitor if syslog traffic stops being received?

Can Nagios tell me if syslog traffic from a device suddenly goes silent? I can monitor if the syslog service dies via snmp, but my concern is, what happens if someone alters a firewall setting that blocks the syslog traffic, or alters a device so it's syslog traffic is no longer being sent to the Na...
by bdmeyer
Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:54 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: clarification desired on nsca client side install
Replies: 5
Views: 1308

Re: clarification desired on nsca client side install

Thank you,
Do I need to isntall the nagios_plugins on the clients getting nsca?

--Bruce
by bdmeyer
Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:18 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: clarification desired on nsca client side install
Replies: 5
Views: 1308

clarification desired on nsca client side install

The community provided documentation on installing NSCA states: Prerequisites -Nagios should be previously installed and configured I understand this is needed on the server. When installing on the client, do I actually need to install nagios, or if I remember correctly as is the case with nrpe, jus...
by bdmeyer
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:23 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: NSCA Unknown options specified in config file...
Replies: 1
Views: 2590

NSCA Unknown options specified in config file...

I have nagios and nrpe working perfectly. I need to use nsca for a few machines. The dox I have read for this leave a couple items unclear in my head, which may be what is causing the problem. I am running as a service and not as xinentd. When I try to test with send_nsca as in these two examples: ....