Nagios - nrpe

NRPE Documentation
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad
Last Updated: May 1, 2007

CONTENTS
Section
1. Introduction ...........................................................................................
a) Purpose ............................................................................................
b) Design Overview ...............................................................................

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2. Example Uses ....................................................................................... 3
a) Direct Checks .................................................................................... 3
b) Indirect Checks ................................................................................. 3
3. Installation ............................................................................................
a) Prerequisites ....................................................................................
b) Remote Host Setup ..........................................................................
c) Monitoring Host Setup ......................................................................

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4. Customizing Your Configuration ........................................................... 13
5. Upgrading ............................................................................................. 15
6. Troubleshooting .................................................................................... 17

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1. INTRODUCTION
1.
a) Purpose
The NRPE addon is designed to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on remote Linux/Unix machines. The main reason for doing this is to allow Nagios to monitor "local" resources (like CPU load, memory usage, etc.) on remote machines. Since these public resources are not usually exposed to external machines, an agent like
NRPE must be installed on the remote Linux/Unix machines.
Note: It is possible to execute Nagios plugins on remote