Information about the package, nrpe, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nrpe package is designed for, Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios.
Package Name:
nrpe
Summary:
Host/service/network monitoring agent 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 core agent.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.2.0
Release:
6.el6
Size:
259 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the nrpe package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nrpe
This command will install nrpe on the server.
yum remove nrpe
This command will un-install nrpe on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nrpe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nrpe
This command will un-install 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 nrpe when using the -y flag.
yum update nrpe
This command will update nrpe to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nrpe, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nrpe
This command will update 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 nrpe when using the -y flag.
yum info nrpe
This command will show you core information about the nrpe package.
yum deplist nrpe
This command will show you the dependencies for 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 nrpe
This command will check if there is an update waiting on 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.