[lug] Nagios help?

[Will]

In an active monitoring scheme the server contacts an agent running on the
monitored hosts and tells it to run a monitoring plug-in and then listens
for the exit status.  A passive moitor just sits and waits for remote hosts
to connect and tell the server the status of services that are being
monitored.  If it does not recieve an update in a given amount of time it
alerts that the service status is unkown.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:40 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> > >> I like ncsa much better than snmp.
> >
> > >We use NRPE instead, and have been very happy with it.
> >
> > I think the topic being discussed is passive monitoring.
> > NRPE only does active, right?
> > NSCA and SNMP can both be used for passive.
>
> can someone please clarify the difference between nagios active and passive
> monitoring? thanks
>
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