Installing Nagios Remote Plugin Executor in FreeBSD 9.1
by Alpha01
This also installs the Nagios plugins in addition of nrpe. Follow the text-based menu install options. The installer will create and configure the nagios user account, and will install the naios and nrpe plugins in /usr/local/libexec/nagios.
cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/nrpe2
make install clean
Update permissions.
chown -R nagios:nagios /usr/local/libexec/nagios
Create nrpe config file.
cd /usr/local/etc
cp nrpe.cfg-sample nrpe.cfg
Add the following entry to /etc/rc.conf.
nrpe2_enable="YES"
Edit nrpe.cfg (Example: 192.168.1.5 is my nagios server)
allowed_hosts=192.168.1.5
Start the nrpe daemon.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nrpe2 start
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