[Nagiosplug-help] SEcurity problem with nagios

[Andy Shellam]

Hi,

Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 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?
>   
Just guessing but what if the OP is also running Apache to serve Nagios 
on port 80?  It wouldn't be a problem if the OP's Nagios server has 
multiple IP addresses but we don't have that information.
>   
>> 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.
>
>   
Yeah I agree, running NCSA on port 80 is the only option if the OP 
doesn't have access to modify their firewall.

Thanks,
Andy