NSCAFE – A Forwarding Version of NSCA

SCAFE (Nagios(R) Service Check Acceptor Forwarding Engine) is a drop-in replacement for the standard Nagios(R) NSCA tool that adds significant functionality useful in monitoring large installations. Among the enhancements are: o NSCAFE automatically forwards service check and other messages received from a remote host both to Nagios(R) itself and/or to another instance of NSCAFE running on another host. o NSCAFE caches service check and other messages in a local XML datastore, so if the connection to a forward host goes down all checks that occur during the down time are stored and can be queued up to forward once the connection is reestablished. o NSCAFE can be set to "update on state change only", minimizing congestion on the destination or "parent" Nagios(R) server. o NSCAFE can send a message to execute any Nagios(R) command on any given Nagios(R) server from any allowed host. o NSCAFE accepts regular expressions in its configuration strings. o NSCAFE is configured using an external configuration file that is upward compatible with NSCA's nsca.cfg. o NSCAFE can be set to strip performance data from a service check before forwarding it. ================================= NSCAFE consists of two components: 1) a java module that accepts messages from the machines being monitored, forwarding the messages on to a local or remote Nagios(R) instance (or another instance of the java module.) 2) a perl script resident on each machine being monitored that sends service check results or commands to an instance of the java module. These two components can be used as a direct substitutes for their NSCA equivalents (send_nsca, nsca.) ================================= ################################################################ # Release 1.0 # 17-Nov-2006 ################################################################ # Copyright (C) 2006 Groundwork Open Source Solutions # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 # as published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # For a copy of the GNU General Public License, # write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., # 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. #

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