Information about the package, nagios-plugins-nrpe, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nagios-plugins-nrpe package is designed for, Provides nrpe plugin for Nagios.
Package Name:
nagios-plugins-nrpe
Summary:
Provides nrpe plugin for Nagios
Description:
Nrpe is a system daemon that will execute various Nagios plugins locally on behalf of a remote (monitoring) host that uses the check_nrpe plugin. Various plugins that can be executed by the daemon are available at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug This package provides the nrpe plugin for Nagios-related applications.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.2.0
Release:
6.el6
Size:
45 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the nagios-plugins-nrpe package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will install nagios-plugins-nrpe on the server.
yum remove nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will un-install nagios-plugins-nrpe on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nagios-plugins-nrpe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will un-install nagios-plugins-nrpe on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nagios-plugins-nrpe when using the -y flag.
yum update nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will update nagios-plugins-nrpe to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nagios-plugins-nrpe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will update nagios-plugins-nrpe to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove nagios-plugins-nrpe when using the -y flag.
yum info nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will show you core information about the nagios-plugins-nrpe package.
yum deplist nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will show you the dependencies for nagios-plugins-nrpe. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update nagios-plugins-nrpe
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nagios-plugins-nrpe. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.