Black Box Secure Device Servers, 1102, 1101 manual Remote site with restrictive firewall

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Chapter 10: Nagios Integration

Remote site with restrictive firewall

In this scenario, the role of the console server will vary. One aspect may be to upload check results through NSCA. Another may be to provide an SSH tunnel to allow the Nagios server to run NRPE commands.

Nagios

SSH travel initiated for remote site

NRPE server at branch server‘s request

Internet

Console

server

Figure 10-9. Using Nagios in a remote site with a restrictive firewall.

Remote site with no network access

In this scenario the console server allows dial-in access for the Nagios server. Periodically, the Nagios server will establish a connection to the console server and execute any NRPE commands, before dropping the connection.

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Black Box Secure Device Servers, 1102, 1101 manual Remote site with restrictive firewall