From 9f401f60441e58247c33e9d07e09d25c2707e51c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:38:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] control: Updated/extended/improved description. --- debian/control | 21 +++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b27e483..a3df47c 100644 --- 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. -- 2.30.2