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Enable NSCA monitoring
NSCA is the mechanism that allows you to send passive check results
from the remote ECS0016 to the Nagios daemon running on the monitor-
ing server. To enable NSCA:
Select 1. System: Nagios and check NSCA Enabled
Select the Encryption to be used from the drop down menu, then enter 2.
a Secret password and specify a check Interval.
Refer to the sample Nagios configuration section below for some ex-
amples of configuring specific NSCA checks
Configure selected Serial Ports for Nagios monitoring
The individual Serial Ports connected to the ECS0016 to be monitored
must be configured for Nagios checks.
To enable Nagios to monitor on a device connected to the ECS0016 se-
rial port:
Select 1. Serial & Network: Serial Port and click Edit on the serial Port
number to be monitored.
Select 2. Enable Nagios, specify the name of the device on the upstream
server and determine the check to be run on this port. Serial Status
monitors the handshaking lines on the serial port and Check Port
monitors the data logged for the serial port.
Configure selected Network Hosts for Nagios monitoring
The individual Network Hosts connected to the ECS0016 to be monitored
must also be configured for Nagios checks:
Select 1. Serial & Network: Network Port and click Edit on the Network
Host to be monitored.
Select 2. Enable Nagios, then specify the name of the device as it will
appear on the upstream Nagios server.
Click 3. New Check to add a specific check which will be run on this host.