nsca(8)

💖 nsca — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the manual page for nsca, aka the Nagios Service Check Acceptor, living in section 8 of the System Manager's Manual. she's a system manager's girlie, she runs on servers, and she is so important. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

nsca — Nagios Service Check Acceptor. that's her. that's the whole name. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

nsca -c <config_file> [-f] [--inetd|--daemon|--single]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so listen. this program is designed to accept passive check results from remote hosts that use the send_nsca(1) utility. so like, send_nsca(1) sends it, and nsca receives it. a whole little relay romance, we love to see it 💌

and she's flexible too — she can run as a service under inetd or xinetd (read the docs for info on this, bestie, i'm not gonna lie to you about the details), or she can run as a standalone daemon. main character energy either way ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• config_file — the name of the config file to use. like, the actual config file. the one you want. give her a path 🥰
• -f — run in the foreground (do not fork). she stays right there with you. no background shenanigans 🫶
• --inetd — run as a service under inetd or xinetd 💫
• --daemon — run as a standalone multi-process daemon 🔥
• --single — run as a standalone single-process daemon 🌸

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• nsca(1)

🍓 FILES 🍓

• /etc/nsca.cfg — nsca server configuration. this is her config, her home base 🏠
• /etc/send_nsca.cfg — send_nsca configuration. that's the sender's config, different girl, same vibe 💖

👑 AUTHOR 👑

NSCA was written by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. and this manpage was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for Debian (but it may be freely used by others — generous king behavior, we stan 🫶).

🧚 bye bestie 🧚

and that's the whole page! this came straight out of the System Manager's Manual, page nsca(8), dated December 2005 — vintage, but make it slay 💅✨ no cap, go accept those passive check results. periodt. 🌸💜🦋