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Steps to Install Nagios Remote Plug-ins Execution (NRPE) daemon

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 <hostname>

You should get a response such as: NRPE v2.14