Chapter 10: Nagios Integration
214 Console Server & RIM Gateway User Manual
10.3.2 Enable NRPE monitoring
Enabling NRPE allows you to execute plug-ins (such as check_tcp and check_ping) on the remote Console server to
monitor serial or network attached remote servers. This will offload CPU load from the upstream Nagios monitoring
machine which is especially valuable if you are monitoring hundreds or thousands of hosts. To enable NRPE:
 Select System: Nagios and check NRPE Enabled
 Enter the details the user connection to the upstream Nagios monitoring server and again refer the sample Nagios
configuration example below for details of configuring specific NRPE checks
By default the console server will accept a connection between the upstream Nagios monitoring server and the NRPE
server with SSL encryption, without SSL, or tunneled through SSH. The security for the connection is configured at the
Nagios server.
10.3.3 Enable NSCA monitoring
NSCA is the mechanism that allows you to send passive check results from the remote console server to the Nagios
daemon running on the monitoring server. To enable NSCA:
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