January 2016
Beginner
326 pages
9h 5m
English
The Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) is a system daemon that uses a special client-server protocol and should be installed on all client hosts that you want to monitor via your Nagios server remotely. It allows the central Nagios server to trigger any Nagios checks on these client hosts securely and with low overhead. Here, we will show you how to set up and configure any CentOS 7 client to use NRPE; if you've got more than one computer in your network that you want to monitor, you need to apply this recipe for every instance.
To complete this recipe, you will require a computer other than your Nagios server with an installation of the CentOS 7 operating system and root privileges, which you ...