Good NSCA client for Redhat/CentOS

[dancc]

I'm looking for a good Linux NSCA client, to send passive monitoring checks to my new NAGIOS server. I've used NSClient++ for Windows, and it works great. Can anyone offer Linux suggestions?

I also know there's a send_nsca, can this be somehow set up to send hourly checks of the CPU/RAM/DiskSpace/Services status?

Got several machines, RHEL 5/6 and CentOS 5/6. They're at distributed remote sites, NRPE wont work.

Thanks in advance!

[slansing]

You can just use the NSCA client itself:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ith_XI.pdf

[dancc]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm a bit confused. The document you linked clearly shows there being a NSCA server and a NSCA client to be installed on the remote machines.

I already have the NSCA server up and working, but I can't locate the NSCA client. Is it part of the same package? There's only a single NSCA listed on the addon page ( http://www.nagios.org/download/addons ), and the instructions only appear to document how to install the NSCA server. There's no mention of a client for the remote server. Am I overlooking something obvious?

[slansing]

Yes, you must simply run through this document to install the client, they are almost identical, the server just receives and parses the packets sent by the NSCA client:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/ ... _Setup.pdf