Re: Monitor remote machine's memory using Nagios Core
Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2013 12:39 pm
Yes, this has been said several times in this thread:vinothsethuram wrote:Do I need to install nrpe in remote system too?
tmcdonald wrote: The package you downloaded needs to go on the remote machine you wish to monitor. The following doc can explain better than I can:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf
heebs wrote:In order to check with nrpe, you have to have the daemon running on the host that you are trying to check. The README file from the tarball you downloaded has full instructions on how to compile/install/configure it.
In addition, sreinhardt's last post said:abrist wrote:No, the nrpe daemon runs on the remote host. Your nagios server checks the remote host with check_nrpe.vinothsethuram wrote:Do we need to install nagios in remote server which we are going to monitor.
Before we troubleshoot this any further you need to have NRPE installed on the remote system you want to check. That is why you are getting those 5666 Connection Refused errors. Please install NRPE so we don't continue chasing other issues that don't exist.sreinhardt wrote:On the remote system that you have installed nrpe on, and want to monitor the memory run: