Re: [Nagios-devel] NRPE protocol
Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:33 am
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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Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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> 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
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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