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Select 

4. 

Check Permitted TCP/UDP to monitor a service that you have  

  previously added as a Permitted Service. 

Select 

5. 

Check TCP/UDP to specify a service port that you wish to  

  monitor, but to which you do not wish to allow external (MetaConnect)  
  access. 

Select 

6. 

Check TCP to monitor 

The Nagios Check selected as the check-host-alive check is the  

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    check used to determine whether the network host itself is up or  
    down 

Typically this will be 

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Check Ping – although in some cases the host  

    will be configured not to respond to pings 

If no 

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check-host-alive check is selected, the host will always be  

    assumed to be up 

You may de-select check-host-alive by clicking Clear check-host- 

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    alive 

If required, customize the selected Nagios Checks to use custom  

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    arguments

Click 

7. 

Configure the upstream Nagios monitoring host
Refer to the Nagios documentation (http://www.nagios.org/docs/) for 
configuring the upstream server: 

The section entitled Distributed Monitoring steps through what you  

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    need to do to configure NSCA on the upstream server (under  
    Central Server Configuration) 

NRPE Documentation: walkthrough NRPE configuration on up 

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    stream server: http://nagios.sourceforge. net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf 

At this stage, Nagios at the upstream monitoring server has been con-
figured, and individual serial port and network host connections on the 
ECS0016 configured for Nagios monitoring. If NSCA is enabled, each se-
lected check will be executed once over the period of the check interval. If 
NRPE is enabled, then the upstream server will be able to request status 
updates under it’s own scheduling.