send_nsca(1)
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 con- fig_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
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).