Enable Nsca Monitoring; Configure Selected Serial Ports For Nagios Monitoring - Tripp Lite B092-016 Owner's Manual

10.3.3 Enable NSCA Monitoring

NSCA is the mechanism that allows you to send passive check results from the remote Console Server to
the Nagios daemon running on the monitoring server. To enable NSCA:

Select System: Nagios and check NSCA Enabled.
 Select the Encryption to be used from the drop-down menu, then enter a Secret password and
specify a check Interval.
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Refer the sample Nagios configuration section below for some examples of configuring specific
NSCA checks.

10.3.4 Configure Selected Serial Ports for Nagios Monitoring

The individual Serial Ports connected to the Console Server to be monitored must be configured for
Nagios checks. Refer to Chapter 4.4: Network Host Configuration for details on enabling Nagios
monitoring for Hosts that are network connected to the Console Server. To enable Nagios to monitor a
device connected to the Console Server serial port:
 Select Serial & Network: Serial Port and click Edit on the serial Port # to be monitored.
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