NAME¶
send_nsca - send passive check results to an NSCA daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
send_nsca -H <host_address> [-p port] [-to to_sec] [-d delim] [ -c
config_file]
DESCRIPTION¶
send_nsca This utility is used to send passive check results to the NSCA
daemon. Host and Service check data that is to be sent to the NSCA daemon is
read from standard input. Input should be provided in the following format
(tab-delimited unless overriden with -d command line argument, one entry per
line):
- Service Checks
- <host>\t<svc_description>\t<return_code>\t<plugin_output>\n
- Host Checks:
- <host>\t<return_code>\t<plugin_output>\n
OPTIONS¶
- host_address
- The IP address of the host running the NSCA daemon
- port
- The port on which the daemon is running - default is
5667
- to_sec
- Number of seconds before connection attempt times out.
(default timeout is 10 seconds)
- delim
- Delimiter to use when parsing input (defaults to a
tab)
- config_file
- Name of config file to use
SEE ALSO¶
- nsca(1)
-
FILES¶
- /etc/nsca.cfg
- nsca server configuration
- /etc/send_nsca.cfg
- send_nsca configuration
AUTHOR¶
NSCA was written by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. This manpage was
written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for Debian (but it may be
freely used, modified, and redistributed by others).