NAGIOS-NRPE(8)

✨ NAGIOS-NRPE(8) ✨

okay bestie, we're in the System Manager's Manual section, and this is the tea on nagios-nrpe — the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor, server side 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

nrpe — Nagios Remote Plugin Executor — Server 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nagios-nrpe [-n] -c <config_file> [-4|-6] <mode>

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the whole point of this addon? it lets you run Nagios plugins on a remote host, and it does it in the most transparent way possible. like, sneaky-clean. no drama. ✨

This program literally just vibes as a background process on the remote host, and it handles command execution requests coming in from the check_nrpe plugin over on the Nagios host. that's the job. that's the whole job. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -n — do NOT use SSL 🙈
• -c <config_file> — the name of the config file you wanna use 🍓
• -4 — use IPv4 only 💜
• -6 — use IPv6 only 💙
• <mode> — pick one of these two operating modes, bestie:
  • -i — run as a service under inetd or xinetd
  • -d — run as a standalone daemon 🔥
  • -d -s — run as a subsystem under AIX
  • -f — don't fork() — this one's for systemd, launchd, etc. 🌈

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💀 Notes 💀

This program is built to process requests from the check_nrpe plugin on the host(s) running Nagios. It can run as a service under inetd or xinetd (go read the docs for the info on that, iykyk), or it can run as a standalone daemon. Either way, the moment a request shows up from an authorized host, NRPE will execute the command/plugin (as defined in the config file) and hand the plugin output and the return code right back to the check_nrpe plugin. no cap. 🫡

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Jason Thomas <jason@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page is serving January 14, 2004 energy — iconic date, iconic docs. slay, periodt. 💅✨🎀