NRPE Agent and Setup

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Sxan wrote:

>
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm just about to start trying to use the NRPE agent for monitoring some remote
> servers (Linux right now and maybe Windows in the future), but I'm just not clear on
> how it works. Does the NRPE Agent run on the remote server and then executes
> plug ins on that remote server, while the Nagios server connects to the remote server
> and gets the results? Or I guess, I just want to know exactly what has to be installed
> where for me to be able to use the NRPE agent.
> i.e.
>
> 1) NRPE Agent gets installed on the remote server
> 2) <Something else gets installed on the nagios server>
> 3) <It gets configured here>
> 4) Restart the Nagios process and it's done.
> etc...
>
> Just something like that is really what is needed, the configuration details I'm sure
> I could figure out. It's just unclear as to what goes where in order for this to work. I'd be
> happy if someone could just point me to a decent how-to also, thanks in advace.
>
> ~Jim
>


1. install check_nrpe on the nagios server with the other plugins
2. install NRPE on the target
3. install plugins on the target
4. configure nrpe.cfg on target for allowed commands and nagios servers
5. run check_nrpe against target to verify functionality
6. add check_nrpe based commands inthe nagios' configuration to monitor
    target

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-sg


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