[Nagiosplug-help] SEcurity problem with nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

g.lancellotti wrote:
> 
> 
>  NSCA communication with HTTP
> 
> We would like to communicate between the send_nsca program and the NSCA daemon trought firewalls and using HTTP protocol.

That sounds insanely difficult. Why not just run nsca on port 80 and then
pretend it's a webserver?

> Is this configuration built-in in Nagios or available with add-on ?
> 

Getting nsca to understand HTTP requests is not built in, but you can
get it to run on any port you like. See the documentation (or the sample
configuration file) for how to go about achieving this.

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