Tutorial on installing the nrpe client in ubuntu

Tutorial on installing the nrpe client in ubuntu

1. Add users

Useradd-s/sbin/nologin Nagios

2. Copy and install the tar package to the server and decompress it.

Tar-zxvf nrpe-2.15.tar.gz

Tar-zxvf nagios-plugins-2.1.1.tar.gz

3. Compile

Cd nagios-plugins-2.1.1

./Configure -- with-nagios-user = nagios -- with-nagios-group = nagios

Make

Make install

Cd nrpe-2.15

. /Configure -- with-nrpe-user = nagios -- with-nrpe-group = nagios -- with-nagios-user = nagios -- with-nagios-group = nagios -- enable-command-args -- enable-ssl

. /Configure -- enable-command-args -- with-nagios-user = nagios -- with-nagios-group = nagios -- with-ssl =/usr/bin/openssl -- with-ssl- lib =/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Make all

Sudo make install

Sudo make install-xinetd

Sudo make install-daemon-config

4. Open the xinetd Startup Script

Vi/etc/xinetd. d/nrpe

Modify the content of only_from and add the IP address of your Nagios server (the address used in this article is 10.100.2.180 ):

Only_from = 127.0.0.1 10.100.2.180

5. Start the nrpe Client

Service xinetd restart