====== Steps to Install Nagios Remote Plug-ins Execution (NRPE) daemon ====== The Monitored (target) host was running Redhat and the Monitoring (source) host was running Ubuntu. ===== Install (Target) ===== * yum -y install nagios-nrpe.x86_64 ===== Configure (Target) ===== * Edit /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg * Update: allowed_hosts to include (Source) host that will execute nrpe ===== Start and Update startp (Target) ===== * service nrpe start * chkconfig nrpe on ===== Validate (Source) ===== In this case my monitoring host was an Ubuntu Server. Install the following on monitoring server: * aptitude -y install nagios-nrpe-server * aptitude -y install nagios-nrpe-plugin From monitoring (Ubuntu) host run: * /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H You should get a response such as: NRPE v2.14