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I found the issue was actually a problem with my nrpe.cfg file. Specifically the server_address line. I ended up commenting it out and the nrpe starts and continues to run correctly now. Thanks for the help.

I installed with apt-get install nagios-plugins nagios-nrpe-server.

Results of netstat - pan | grep 5666 tcp 0 0 172.16.0.10:4506 66.188.18.166:55666 ESTABLISHED - tcp 0 0 172.16.0.10:4506 172.16.4.142:56667 ESTABLISHED - tcp 0 0 172.16.0.10:4506 172.16.4.137:56668 ESTABLISHED - tcp 0 0 172.16.0.10:4506 172.16.4.91:55666 ESTABLISHED - tcp 0 0 172.16.0.10:4506 172.16...

I recently started setting up Nagios at my work. I installed Nagios core 4.1.1 on a Debian 7 system to be my monitoring server and it is working great. I installed nagios-nrpe-server and nagios-plugins on the Debian hosts I want to monitor and configured nrpe.cfg to allow my monitoring host. This al...