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Hi,

We are moving our Nagios installation from one server to a new server. I did a completely new install on the new server and then brought across the configuration files from our old installation. Everything seemed to work as I was able to start the service and sign into the web interface. The new install started checking all of the hosts and services and started to report on their statuses. As I started to evaluate the services that were failing, I noticed that many of them were relating the check_nrpe calls. I originally thought it was an IP address issue but what I realized was that in the new install the check_nrpe program was missing from /usr/local/nagios/libexec.

I have done a brand new install twice now on the server and in both cases the check_nrpe program is missing. I was following this quick install tutorial that was mentioned on the website:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... edora.html

The new server is running CentOS 6. I've installed Nagios Core 3.3.1 and nagios-plugins 1.4.15. I did a search of the entire file system and I can't find a reference to check_nrpe any where. I am not sure how to proceed as many of the services that are monitored use the check_nrpe application to receive their data. Can anyone suggest where I might try next?

Thanks.

It tells you how long it has been since I've had to work with Nagios. I thought the check_nrpe program was either part of the Nagios Core install or the nagios-plugins install. It turns out that it is a separate package altogether and one that I didn't have installed. Once I installed it, the services were checking correctly. Maybe this might help someone else...

You know, I did the exact same thing last year when I moved our server to a new box... spent a good hour trying to work that one out before I remembered it was a separate package.