Nagios push agent instead of pull?

[aschiefe]

I've been googling for a way to use a nagios agent to push statistics instead of having the server pull them. Is there such a concept for nagios xi? We have ephemeral servers that come up on a software defined network that nagios will not be able to get into, but the server itself will be able to reach the nagios server. Any advice is appreciated.

[tmcdonald]

That would be a Passive ("push") check, as opposed to an Active ("pull") check. We have a few different ways to do this, and this doc should get you started:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios-XI.pdf

[aschiefe]

Thanks for the docs, will try that and hopefully it'll work for us.