Tripp Lite B092-016 - Configuring Nagios Distributed Monitoring

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Chapter 10: Nagios Integration
10.3 Configuring Nagios distributed monitoring
ToactivatetheConsoleServer’sNagiosdistributedmonitoring:
• Nagiosintegrationmustbeenabledandapathestablishedtothecentral/upstreamNagiosserver
• IftheConsoleServeristoperiodicallyreportonNagios-monitoredservices,thentheNSCAclientembeddedinthe
ConsoleServermustbecongured:theNSCAprogramenablesscheduledcheck-inswiththeremoteNagiosserverandis
used to send passive check results across the network to the remote server
• IftheNagiosserveristoactivelyrequeststatusupdatesfromtheConsoleServer,thentheNRPEserverembeddedinthe
ConsoleServermustbecongured–theNRPEserveristheNagiosdaemonforexecutingplug-insonremotehosts
• EachoftheSerialPortsandeachoftheHostsconnectedtotheConsoleServerwhicharetobemonitoredmusthave
NagiosenabledandanyspecicNagioscheckscongured
• Lastlythecentral/upstreamNagiosmonitoringhostmustbecongured