Send Nagios passive check

Description

This job entry allows you to send passive checks to Nagios. You can send monitoring information e.g. about start and end processes within your job.

It needs the NCSA addon installed on the Nagios server (NSCA is a Linux/Unix daemon allows you to integrate passive alerts and checks from remote machines and applications with Nagios. Useful for processing security alerts, as well as redundant and distributed Nagios setups.)

More details and setup instructions for the Nagios NSCA addon can be found at the Nagios Passive Checks documentation.

Version

This job entry was first introduced in version 5.0 GA.

Options

Option	Description
Job entry name	Name of the job entry; the name has to be unique in a single job.
Server tab
Host Name/IP Address	Nagios server name / IP Address
Server port	Nagios server port (often 5667).
Password	The password to connect to the Nagios server NSCA (shared between the Nagios server and the client). This field can be set empty when connections without password are allowed.
Connection Timeout	Fail after the specified connection timeout.
Response Timeout	Fail after the specified response timeout.
Sender tab
Host Name/IP Address	Define your sender host name / IP Address.
Service Name	Define the service name used to log the events.
Encryption mode	Encryption mode for the connection.
Level	Log level: Unknown, OK, Warning, Critical.
Message tab
Message	The message to get logged.