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  • Installing the NRPE client, daemon and nagios plugins on debian

    Date: 2010.01.18 | Category: guide, install, nagios, nrpe, open source | Response: 0

    We assuming have already configured nrpe on your nagios box and you are sudo’d/root

    Steps:

    adduser nagios (set the password)
    cd /home/nagios
    wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.12.tar.gz
    * If this step fails visit http://www.nagios.org/download/addons for the latest URL

    tar -zxvf nrpe-2.8.tar.gz
    cd nrpe-2.12
    apt-get install gcc gawk openssl
    apt-get install make
    apt-get install libssl-dev
    apt-get install nagios-plugins
    ./configure
    make all
    make install-plugin
    make install-daemon
    make install-daemon-config
    echo “only_from = 0.0.0.1″ >> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg
    * Remember to replace 0.0.0.1 with your the IP address of your nagios server

    cp init-script.debian /etc/init.d/nrpe
    chmod 700 /etc/init.d/nrpe
    /etc/init.d/nrpe start

    You may want to make this script run on start up
    update-rc.d nrpe defaults