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Dear all,

I am looking how to setup Nagios in our environment which allows me to monitor the complete environment of a customer.

* customer has several sites which are not always accessible via VPN. Each site has internet connectivity
* can i configure a client system to send traps in a secure way over the internet?
* customer is already running Nagios for Infrastructure monitoring but we need to build a seperate environment, can a client send traps to two different Nagios systems?
* i read about (new to Nagios) Nagios NRPE, is this only for linux or also available for windows hosts?

Any idea how to implement this "managed services" Nagios environment really appreciated.

Kenny

* can i configure a client system to send traps in a secure way over the internet?
snmpv3 would be relatively secure with encryption, users, and passwords, however you would only be able to query one device per port.

* customer is already running Nagios for Infrastructure monitoring but we need to build a seperate environment, can a client send traps to two different Nagios systems?
Depending on the clien\device this is absolutely possible. You may also configure thier nagios machine to either accept requests for checks from your server, or to passively send checks back to you.

* i read about (new to Nagios) Nagios NRPE, is this only for linux or also available for windows hosts?
nsclient can do nrpe for windows systems, and is a pretty solid way to go. You could also use snmp as mentioned before, or wmi for windows hosts, to query just about anything.

KennyV wrote:* can i configure a client system to send traps in a secure way over the internet?

This depends on the client system, there are some that support sending traps with SNMPv3 but the setup is tricky and all devices do not support it.

I would consider using having the customer setup Outbound transfer via NSCA or NRDP to send results from their system up to yours
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... -nagios-xi

KennyV wrote:* i read about (new to Nagios) Nagios NRPE, is this only for linux or also available for windows hosts?

Both. On Windows systems, you would install NSClient++ (link in the Windows Server Wizard) and activate nrpe in the NSC.ini
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... h-nsclient