Monitoring externally through proxy?
Posted: Mon May 16, 2016 9:59 am
I'm wondering if this is possible and if so, how would I set it up?
Currently I monitor a few public-facing servers in our network with Nagios on an offsite VPS. This is easy because, well, they are public. I'm getting to the point where I want to monitor devices that aren't available externally...like wireless access points for example. I obviously don't want to port forward access to these devices.
I can't find any sort of guide that would allow me to have 1 server (nrpe?) that acts as a proxy for doing all of the checking of the internal network and it passes this info to the VPS running Nagios. This would require me to only have one forwarding rule (5666 for nrpe).
So basically:
Internal network hosts <-- Monitoring server in Internal network ---> External Nagios VPS
Currently I monitor a few public-facing servers in our network with Nagios on an offsite VPS. This is easy because, well, they are public. I'm getting to the point where I want to monitor devices that aren't available externally...like wireless access points for example. I obviously don't want to port forward access to these devices.
I can't find any sort of guide that would allow me to have 1 server (nrpe?) that acts as a proxy for doing all of the checking of the internal network and it passes this info to the VPS running Nagios. This would require me to only have one forwarding rule (5666 for nrpe).
So basically:
Internal network hosts <-- Monitoring server in Internal network ---> External Nagios VPS