NRPE D
NRPE D
OCUMENTATION
OCUMENTATION
Extract the Nagios plugins source code tarball.
# tar xzf nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz
# cd nagios-plugins-2.2.1
Note: on some systems, you will have to run the extract this way:
# gunzip -c nagios-plugins-2.2.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
Compile and install the plugins.
# ./configure
# make
# make install
Depending on the version of the plugins, the permissions on the plugin directory and the plugins may need
to be fixed at this point. If so run the following commands:
# useradd nagios
# groupadd nagios
# usermod -a -G nagios nagios
# chown nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios
# chown -R nagios.nagios /usr/local/nagios/libexec
iii. Install xinetd
If you will be running NRPE per-connections, some distributions, such as Fedora Core 6, don't ship with
xinetd installed by default, so install it with the following command:
# yum install xinetd
iv. Install the NRPE daemon
Download the source code tarball of the NRPE addon (visit https://www.nagios.org/downloads/nagios-core-
addons/ for links to the latest versions). At the time of writing, the latest version of NRPE was 3.0.
# cd ~/downloads
# wget https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/archive/nrpe-3.0.tar.gz
Extract the NRPE source code tarball:
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