NRPE Agent and Setup

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sxan
> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 12:46 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE Agent and Setup
> 
> 
> 
> 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...

1) NRPE and desired nagios plugins installed on remote host
2) check_nrpe installed on nagios server
3) appropriate check_nrpe commands are added to nagios commands/service
definitions
4) nagios calls check_nrpe command for service which contacts NRPE
daemon on remote host which runs the plugin and returns the result to
check_nrpe which returns the result to nagios.
 
> 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.

It's not challenging... The section titled "Configuring Things On The
Nagios Host" in the README and the sample nrpe.cfg are pretty
straightforward. If you have difficulties understanding particular
activities you can always search google or ask here.

--
Marc


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