Nag(ix)SC

Flexible transport agent for Nagios™/Icinga check results over HTTP or any other way you like!

Nag(ix)SC is a replacement for NRPE (Nagios™ Remote Plugin Executor) and NSCA (Nagios™ Service Check Acceptor) supporting multiple transport mechanisms like HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, rsync, or whatever you like. It may be used to execute Nagios™/Icinga plugins on a remote host or to send service check results to a central monitoring server.

Nag(ix)SC includes simple HTTP server implementations to send and receive check results and execute plugins. HTTP is the preferred way to transfer the generated data because of the following benefits:

• simple protocol with many existing support tools (e.g. curl) and libraries for basically any programming and scripting language
• support for relaying/forwarding through (reverse-)proxies
• support for authorization and authentication
• support for encryption (HTTPS)
• filtering possibilities