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SOLVED! (man, how do I keep solving these all on my own lol)

I found this article which I followed to the Tee. It now works correctly.

http://tecadmin.net/install-nrpe-on-centos-rhel/

Using the software you linked (this is the same as I used before I created this thread) I did the following: 1. Untar 2. ./configure 3. make 4. make install-plugin I was able to then find check_nrpe in /libexec but no configuration file was created anywhere. Additionally, the IPtables were still not...

I have cleanly installed Core 4.1.0 and standard plugins yesterday on CentOS 6 x64 I have brought several Windows servers online using check_nt I have obtained a plugin from the Exchange site which require check_nrpe I can see that my Nagios instance doesn't have this plugin installed with the defau...

I got it all figured out now.

The problem was that the nagios.cfg didn't specify any cfg_file or cfg_dir which would have included my new file. Once I did this, all is well.

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Configuration <sheller.cfg> define host{ use generic-host host_name shellerwebsite alias Sheller.com Website address sheller.com hostgroups allhosts } define service{ use generic-service host_name shellerwebsite service_description HTTP check_command check_http } The config check reports no errors. ...

I've installed Nagios Core 4.1.0 with plugins onto a newly installed CentOS 6. The site is up and running correctly as well as successfully monitoring localhost. I've created a new file in the objects directory ending with .cfg. Within this file I've defined a host and a service, only to check_http....