[Nagiosplug-devel] !nrpe

[Carl Ekman]

Thanks Thomas,

sounds a bit like the fish kioslave for KDE file transfers then... I know from 
experience that it works very well, but my aim here is to be fairly strict 
with only requiring single unix specification/unix98/posix or similar for the 
monitored client... the real target is to work just as well with solaris 8 as 
with hp/ux, aix, 10 year old linux as with the latest and fanciest...

I've run into stuff like how NRPE relies on gcc instead of for instance ANSI C 
and that messes things up with AIX native compiler... Just an example. 
Requiring perl would be a similar disadvantage.

So, it's not what I want to do, but thank you very much for your input!


Cheers,
Carl Ekman

On Friday 04 May 2007, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagiosplug-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagiosplug-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On
> > Behalf Of Carl Ekman
> > Sent: May 4, 2007 13:37
> > To: Nagios Plugin Development Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] !nrpe
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > thank you. However, I am aware of check_by_ssh, and it
> > requires plugins to be
> > present on the remote system.
> >
> > My intention is to have near zero client configuration for
> > any unix client.
> >
> > ssh framework seems to be a similar idea, but still a bit
> > more complex.
> >
> > I attach the latest version of my plugin, since I've been
> > fixing a few bugs
> > and added features since my last post.
>
> What I'd do if I had time to work on that is to pipe PERL code to remote
> client as checks. You build a library of perl checks (You can get some that
> are already written or get them from various sources) then all you need is
> allow ssh to run Perl then pipe the code to the remote host then grab the
> result.
>
> Just my 2 canadian cents...
>
> Thomas



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