nrpe installation on clients

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry Cox [mailto:kerry.cox at ksl.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 4:57 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nrpe installation on clients
> 
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:07, Marc Powell wrote:
> > Only the NRPE client, it's config file and the specific plugins you
> > intend to use. NRPE really isn't that difficult to get going.
> 
> Right, which is what I did. However, the docs with NRPE did not
specify
> that the check_* scripts needed to be on the remote host as well. I
had
> to figure that out. The Nagios FAQ page is good for most debugging but
I
> think it ignores this fact.

The check_* files _are_ the plugins (everything in libexec actually).
What other files are you talking about that you believe to be the
plugins?

> Right. Again, it sounded like the entire Nagios program had to be
> installed, but if you only need the plugins, then couldn't you just
> simply create a /usr/local/nagios/libexec directory and run them
there?

Yes. They don't even have to be in that specific directory as long as
your nrpe.cfg points to the right place.

--
Marc



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