Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE protocol

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Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE protocol

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Jason Martin wrote:
> May I suggest that the NRPE protocol be changed to allow a
> banner to be emitted by the daemon upon connection? That'll make
> manual testing that the daemon is operating properly easier as
> well as remote identification. Network operations technicians
> don't always know how to run check_nrpe against a machine to
> check that NRPE is working, but a lot can be instructed to
> telnet to port 5666 and check the banner.
>

I think the nrpe --help output should include how to do this. I'm also
working on a man-page for both nrpe and check_nrpe which will ofcourse
include this.

> Thanks,
> -Jason Martin

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