Re-Install NRPE on Linux Client

[crnewman]

I'm running Nagios XI on CentOS 6.9 on VMWare. I was having a problem installing the NRPE client on a Linux box running CentOS 7.3 and I followed the instructions on your site to manually uninstall NRPE. I then tried to re-run the ./fullinstall and the script aborts saying it's already installed. How can I re-install NRPE?

Thanks,
Craig

[npolovenko]

Hello, @crnewman. It's hard to tell without knowing how you installed nrpe in a first place. Because there are multiple ways to do that. Do you still have a link to the installation tutorial that you used?

Second, you should go over the steps in the tutorial one more time.
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... e-741.html

Third, you may search the system for nrpe files and folders:

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find / -name nrpe 

And then remove everything that has the nrpe name on it.

That should do it.

[gormank]

The OP needs to remove or rename the directory created by extracting the nrpe package, probably in /tmp, extract the package, then run fullinstall. The installation creates files that tell it what installation steps succeeded, so it can resume in the event of a failure.

[npolovenko]

Thanks for the input, @gormank!

@crnewman, Were you able to get this resolved?