SYNOPSIS

       nagios-statd [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION

       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 stand-
       alone daemon.  To do this, you'll need to enter something similar to:

              /etc/inetd.conf:
              nagios-statd stream  tcp  nowait  nobody  /usr/sbin/nagios-statd
              nagios-statd -i
              /etc/services:
              nagios-statd/1040 tcp

       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  moni-
       tored 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

       This is free software, there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABIL-
       ITY  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.

       Nagios is a trademark of Ethan Galstad.

SEE ALSO

       nagios-stat(1)



Version 3.12                      17 Nov 2005                  NAGIOS-STATD(8)