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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. There is a check_nrpe_1arg definition as well as a check_nrpe in /etc/nagios-plugins/config/check_nrpe.cfg. When I changed my server cfg file to use check_nrpe_1arg, everything began to work.

Thanks again!

You can see in my original post - i tried your suggestion and it worked. Why is the nagios macro processing the command with "-a" when I don't have any parameters in the nagios cfg file? Master server cfg snippet: check_service check_nrpe!check_disk1 <=== NOTE: no parameters for check_disk...

I installed nagios 3.5.1 on ubuntu 14.04 (apt-get install nagios3, apt-get install nagios-nrpe-plugin). On a remote ubuntu 14.04 server, I installed nrpe-server (apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server). There seems to be a problem when not passing arguments. (Or maybe I'm missing something obvious) I se...