Can we configure NRPE agent on Nagios XI server

[sagarjatti]

Hi Team,

Can we configure NRPE agent on Nagios XI server to monitor another Nagios server?

Regards,
Sag

[litsupport.box]

Is this what you are looking for?

http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/nrpe (Installing check_nrpe Plugin On Nagios Core 4.0.x)

This is what I did.

[jdalrymple]

Absolutely.

The NRPE daemon won't interfere with Nagios at all. This won't however help you integrate the 2 Nagios together, it will just monitor the remote Nagios server like any other Linux box.

To receive remote check results you'll want NRDP.

Make sense?

[sagarjatti]

check_nrpe is already exist on Nagios server under libexe folder but nrpe service will not be running as daemon on Nagios server right ?

[jdalrymple]

That's correct - check_nrpe is the client.

nrpe is the server portion and can be called directly with the -d flag or alternatively launched via xinetd/initd.

Incidentally, both are installed during the NagiosXI full install, although it's rare you'd use nrpe daemon except maybe for testing.