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Hi,

Currently I am using NRPE with Nagios Core to monitor remote servers. This is working fine in most cases but unfortunately there are cases when the remote NRPE port can't be opened for nagios to connect to.

Does anyone know if there's something that works just like NRPE but instead the client would connect to the Nagios Core server and send the data of the remote server it is running on thus not requiring a remote port to be opened on the server that is being monitored?

Please let me know
Thanks in advance

Remote -> Server communication is usually done by snmp traps. You can find information on it here: https://www.nagios.com/solutions/snmp-traps/

avandemore wrote:Remote -> Server communication is usually done by snmp traps. You can find information on it here: https://www.nagios.com/solutions/snmp-traps/

This means that I will need to run the snmpd daemon on the server that is being monitoring and have nagios query it for data, basically it is the same as NRPE client as I will still need a port opened so nagios can connect to the remote snmpd daemon.

I want it to work the other way. I want the remote client to connect to the nagios server and send the data for the check commands.

Is this possible?
Please let me know
THanks

It wasn't made clear, but the idea is that the Core server would be running the SNMP daemon, and the remote server would send over traps.

The way I would suggest though would be to use NRDP: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... or/details

Much more configurable, and in my opinion easier to use.