Sending a request to the Nagios service to be monitored.

[umashankar]

What I know is Nagios is a tool used to monitor remote servers by configuring it. But I have a requirement in which I need other remote server applications to be sending a request to the Nagios service at particular intervals and saying that I'm running and this is my status. Googling it didn't give any information so far. So I just want to know if this is possible with Nagios. Can you please help me with this query so that I can fulfill my requirement.

[rkennedy]

Nagios has two types of checks, and I'll give you a quick explanation of them:
- Active: This is where Nagios reaches out to the client machine, requests the information, and then the client receives it. Nagios is doing all of the polling.
- Passive: This is when client machines send data in every x interval, and Nagios processes it. No reaching out or request is done from the Nagios side.

I believe what you're after is Passive Checks. See this document for more in-depth information - https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... hecks.html