Description
This job entry allows you to send passive checks to Nagios. You can send monitoring information e.g. about start and end processes within your job.
It needs the NCSA addon installed on the Nagios server (NSCA is a Linux/Unix daemon allows you to integrate passive alerts and checks from remote machines and applications with Nagios. Useful for processing security alerts, as well as redundant and distributed Nagios setups.)
More details and setup instructions for the Nagios NSCA addon can be found at the Nagios Passive Checks documentation.
Version
This job entry was first introduced in version 5.0 GA.
Options
Option |
Description |
|---|---|
Job entry name |
Name of the job entry; the name has to be unique in a single job. |
Server tab |
|
Host Name/IP Address |
Nagios server name / IP Address |
Server port |
Nagios server port (often 5667). |
Password |
The password to connect to the Nagios server NSCA (shared between the Nagios server and the client). This field can be set empty when connections without password are allowed. |
Connection Timeout |
Fail after the specified connection timeout. |
Response Timeout |
Fail after the specified response timeout. |
Sender tab |
|
Host Name/IP Address |
Define your sender host name / IP Address. |
Service Name |
Define the service name used to log the events. |
Encryption mode |
Encryption mode for the connection. |
Level |
Log level: Unknown, OK, Warning, Critical. |
Message tab |
|
Message |
The message to get logged. |