Nagios Support Forum

sreinhardt wrote:

In terms of security, which encryption mechanism you recommend? In principle I configured 3DES.

3des is probably the best that nsca supports, it doesn't have full openssl support at the moment, but this should be more than fine for an internal system.

sreinhardt wrote:

* As for the definition of services, I have services with the same name (e.g. "CPU Load") running in active mode, but also I defined an object service with this name for passive checks for this specific group of servers which makes the same check but in passive mode. Nagios not submit a message about duplicate service descriptions. This practice is recommended?

I can't say I really suggest this, as if you are using different checks it will cause an issue with perfdata being represented properly. However there are many people that do, so it's really up to you. It will work fine, just be sure to enable passive checks on that service.

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