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It isn't realy recommended using HTTP from external to your internal network.
You're nagios instance also contains a lot of information about your internal network architecture etc.
If that gets compromised ...

You may be able to configure it to use a separate port, however this probably won't fix the issue of how are you going to validly run multiple NSCA instances, the default use port is 5667 this may just change that on configuration in case you need to use another port. You can always experiment but ...

Ah ok thanks.
Although I saw an option in the ./configure : --with-nsca-port=

I thought we could maybe put that on port 5668..

If you worked out a script it would be nice if you could let us all know how you did it or post the script! I'm also very interested in this because we have serveral Nagios instances monitoring a lot of servers and their services (also hardware) and it is all configured quiet static! A dynamic solut...

Hi all, I'm sitting here with a little problem : I'm using multiple Nagios Core instances running besides each other on the same virtual machine. Now I wanted some of the external checks of a server (which I configured on one Nagios instance) also on the other Nagios instance. But in the /etc/nsca.c...