NCPA - passive mode

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khood140
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NCPA - passive mode

Post by khood140 »

Is communication from the server being monitored with NCAP to the Nagios host two way?
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benjaminsmith
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Re: NCPA - passive mode

Post by benjaminsmith »

Passive checks are asynchronous communication and it's up to the external application, NCPA, to process and send the check results back to the server.

Here's how passive checks work:

1. An external application checks the status of a host or service.
2. The external application will write the results to an external command file.
3. Nagios will periodically execute a check result reaper event and scan the results.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
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