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Hi,

I was wondering, is it possible with Nagios XI to monitor a server which sits outside of our own environment and is one we do not have a direct connection to?

At present, we monitor a lot of hosts, all of which we can RDP or VNC to because we have direct connections to the firewall they sit behind - the problem is that we also have a lot of server we are responsible for, which sit behind a firewall that we do not have a connection to. In order to access these servers, we have to use LogMeIn or similar - is it possible to somehow monitor these servers or do you have to have a direct connection to them in order to do so.

We are currently using a VM image of NAGIOS XI.

Many thanks to anyone who can assist!

There are few different options:
1. Passive checks.
2. An agent server running on a box local to the remote servers (nrpe proxy or similar)
3. A nagios server local to the remote environment that pushes results to your main nagios box.
There are others as well.

You need to either use agents which report passively, open ports and forward, or have a server/proxy box on the network segment.