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When NRPE and NSCA are both enabled, NSCA is preferred method for communicating with the
upstream Nagios server— check Prefer NRPE to use NRPE whenever possible (that is, for all
communication except for alerts).
10.3.2 Enable NRPE monitoring
Enabling NRPE allows you to execute plug-ins (such as check_tcp and check_ping) on the remote Console
server to monitor serial or network attached remote servers. This will offload CPU load from the
upstream Nagios monitoring machine. This is especially valuable if you are monitoring hundreds or
thousands of hosts. To enable NRPE:
Select System: Nagios and check NRPE Enabled
Enter the details for the user connection to the upstream Nagios monitoring server and again
refer to the sample Nagios configuration example below for details about how to configure
specific NRPE checks.
By default, the console server will accept a connection between the upstream Nagios monitoring server
and the NRPE server with SSL encryption, without SSL, or tunneled through SSH. The security for the
connection is configured at the Nagios server.
10.3.3 Enable NSCA monitoring
NSCA is the mechanism that allows you to send passive check results from the remote console server to
the Nagios daemon running on the monitoring server. To enable NSCA:
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