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Introduction

  • The NSCAFragment is used for direct connections to System Monitors which operate a Nagios-compatible NSCA service for passive checks such as Nagios®, Icinga®, Opsview®.
  • This fragment type makes use of the JSend NSCA Java API. Note that this fragment type does not support more elaborated encryption as required by a number of System Monitors.

NSCAFragment

NSCAFragment supports the following attributes:

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Note
titleSystem Monitor: Opsview

In case you are using Opsview® as a monitoring tool: consider that the plugin will not work, since Opsview® supports ca. 20 encryption types that are not supported by this plugin. You can only use the plugin when no encryption (type: NONE) is used.

Instead, you can use the JS7 - Notification - Configuration Element CommandFragment and indicate the exact command to send passive checks to your System Monitor from a remote machine using the System Monitor's Agent.

Examples

Nagios / op5

The following is an excerpt from an XML configuration for notification with Nagios and op5 via the NSCAFragment:

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