control: Updated/extended/improved description.

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index b27e4839b5188cf6bb81e7ce6d6fb472df1c0c16..a3df47c97b4d10a71bf91c16ee153b87e2e3fcf8 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -11,5 +11,22 @@ Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, python-libxml2
 Suggests: python-openssl
 Provides: ${python:Provides}
-Description: Transport Nagios check results via HTTP
- Nag(ix)SC is a replacement for NRPE and NSCA
+Description: flexible transport agent for Nagios/Icinga check results
+ Nag(ix)SC is a replacement for NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) and NSCA
+ (Nagios Service Check Acceptor) supporting multiple transport mechanisms like
+ HTTP(S), 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
+ .
+ Nagios/Icinga are monitoring and management systems for hosts, services and
+ networks.