From 5be657722f4ed535678495579783945158d0a135 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 13:24:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: Added more verbose description. --- README | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 9b89b7d..55286f5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,6 +3,23 @@ Nag(ix)SC Transport of 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(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 + URLs: ----- -- 2.30.2