nagios-statd (nagios-statd Daemon) is the daemon program for nagios-stat(1). These programs
together comprise a systems monitoring tool for various platforms. It is
designed to be integrated with the Nagios monitoring tool, although this is not
a requirement.
nagios-statd is the daemon that listens for connections from clients. It forks off a new
daemon for each incoming connection. The forked daemon executes a series of
typical UNIX commands and returns those commands standard output to the client.
OPTIONS
-a, --allowedhosts=HOSTS HOSTS is a comma delimited list of hostnames and/or IP addresses to accept
connections from. The default behavior (without -a) is to accept incoming
connections from all hosts.
-b, --bindto=IP Normally, nagios-statd will bind to all interfaces on a machine. You can enter
an IP address to get nagios-statd to only bind only on the IP of a particular
interface.
-i, --inetd It is possible to run nagios-statd from inetd, rather than as a standalone
daemon. To do this, you'll need to enter something similar to:
This is probably the best way to run nagios-statd, although that can make it
prone to inetd DoSes (which might happen if the host is monitored on a very
short interval, such as every couple seconds).
-p, --port=PORT Port for nagios-statd to listen to. The default port is 1040.
-P, --pid=FILE Save the pid (process id) of the master daemon to FILE.
-V, --version Output version information and exit.
-h, --help Print short option information and exit.
BUGS
There is a general lack of feedback for the more obscure platforms. As such
their behavior might not always be particularly deterministic. Feedback is
always welcome. Redhat Linux contains Python 1.x as /usr/bin/python. This
program requires Python 2.x to function. Either change the shebang at the top
of the program to point to /usr/bin/python2, or change /usr/bin/python to be
Python 2.x.
AUTHOR
Nick Reinking
http://www.twoevils.org E-mail: nick at twoevils dot org
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002,2003 Nick Reinking.
This is free software, there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. This program is licensed under the BSD
license. More information is available in the LICENSE file included with
this program.
