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Questions tagged [nrpe]

Questions about the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor, a monitoring agent add-on for the Nagios software package.

NRPE is an acronym for the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor software agent installed to remotely monitor computer systems.

From the Nagios support site:

NRPE allows you to remotely execute Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. This allows you to monitor remote machine metrics (disk usage, CPU load, etc.).

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nagios nrpe dameon check_nrpe plugin missing

I installed nagios nrpe on a remote machine from Ubuntu repository sudo apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server , and plugins with: sudo apt-get install nagios-plugins-basic nagios-plugins nagios-plugins-extra After the installation, check_nrpe is…
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Can not access a files that belong to other users

I have a plugin that must read some files every X minutes (this plugin is running under user1), those files belong to user2 (from another application), the structure is something like this: drwxr-xr-x. 2 user2 5536 4096 sep 2 11:09…
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running /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt as nagios user does not return the correct result

I have two servers, both running 12.04 server, and nagios-nrpe-server. On both, I have configured the command check_apt, which runs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt. On both, nagios-nrpe-server is configured to run as the nagios…
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check_apt issue with Nagios

Running a base install of Ubuntu 22.04 using Nagios and NRPE to monitor hosts, all running 22.04. My issue is with check_apt returning two different results: $# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt APT OK: 0 packages available for upgrade (0 critical…
kevin wincott
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