Configuring Nagios Client nrpe

Solaris 11.2 or 10 has a repository that you can use to install the software to talk to you Nagios server.


pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i nrpe
/usr/sbin/pkgchk -L CSWnrpe # list files

edit
# vi /etc/opt/csw/nrpe.cfg
# svcadm restart svc:/network/cswnrpe


CentOS 7

Use the epel reposity

#yum -y install epel-release
#yum -y install nrpe nagios-plugins-all openssl

Edit /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg file,

sudo vi /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
Add your Nagios server ip address:

[...]
## Find the following line and add the Nagios server IP xx
allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1, xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[...]


Start nrpe service on CentOS clients:

CentOS 7:

#systemctl start nrpe ; chkconfig nrpe on


CentOS 6.x:

#service nrpe start
#chkconfig nrpe on


Centos 7

# firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=5666/tcp --permanent

# firewall-cmd --reload



Centos 6

#iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.100 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5666 -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
#service iptables save
#service iptables restart