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How to protect NRPE traffic with certificates

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 3:51 am
by sheen.lim
In a previous post i was able to communicate with my windows server via nsclient++ with insecure mode.

However, I really want to try communicate with the nagios server using certificates.

It seems the documentation regarding on nsclient++ and nagios nrpe using certificates are very rare if not outdated.

so First, How can I create certificate in the nagios server using openssl using the libressl library.?
second, How can I tell check_nrpe to use the certificate compiled with libressl?
third, how can I publish that same certificate on the widnows host?

Re: How to protect NRPE traffic with certificates

Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:37 pm
by dwasswa
Hi @shee.lim,
Have you looked at the kb articles below?

Here is a documentation..Configure Nagios Core to use certificates on how to configure Nagios Core to use certificates.

Here is SSL/TLS - Signing Certificates With A Microsoft Certificate Authority for windows

NPRE OR NSCLIENT:

NRPE - v3 Enhanced Security