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by voodoodrul
Tue Dec 23, 2014 10:19 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Can Nagios traverse multi-homed servers acting as routers?
Replies: 5
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Re: Can Nagios traverse multi-homed servers acting as router

It would be interesting if Nagios Core could support a hosts.cfg declaration of something like 'proxy_parents'. This would behave like 'parents' but use them as a proxy. I suppose each plugin would need to know how to interpret this, as check_by_ssh would probably just use ProxyCommand with netcat, ...
by voodoodrul
Mon Dec 22, 2014 11:18 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Can Nagios traverse multi-homed servers acting as routers?
Replies: 5
Views: 1661

Re: Can Nagios traverse multi-homed servers acting as router

Thank you, tmcdonald! I think we will need to proceed with nested check_nrpe calls, as cumbersome as that will be. Hopefully nagios XI can ease our configuration pains, but this seems such an edge case it would not surprise me if XI cannot.
by voodoodrul
Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:39 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Can Nagios traverse multi-homed servers acting as routers?
Replies: 5
Views: 1661

Can Nagios traverse multi-homed servers acting as routers?

Hello. We are researching whether Nagios can support our infrastructure. The topology is... unique. Imagine we have servers in 4 networks, A,B,C,D. Consider all of these networks to be private and no traffic routes between them, except for a few multi-homed servers. One server on network A has two n...