[ale] nagios NRPE proxy

[Shawn]

I am trying to understand how a NRPE proxy works so I can test this as a
 solution..

Currently my nagios core is outside of the "production" network for various
reasons. I have NRPE setup via xinetd on two production servers inside this
network. a number of the servers inside this network are internal only db
servers with no outbound access.

I found this here ->

http://serverfault.com/questions/117815/distributed-nagios-installation

So I would need the NRPE and plugins i'm using installed on the db server..

>From the main nagios server: check_nrpe -H NRPEPROXYHOST -c check_ping -H
10.0.0.3 ....
So that makes sense, you call a regular check and then have it run whatever
check on the internal.. What if I wanted to do something besides a check
ping, maybe a disk check that requires the plugin to be on the server? Can I
string something to together? Can anyone provide me with an example of this?

So I assume to do that the NRPE daemon needs to be running on internal db
server.  Which is fine, but when nagios checks through the proxy.. How do I
configure it to display it is a unique host instead of the NRPEPROXYHOST?

thanks
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