We use nagios to watch our networks and I always forget the simple steps necessary to drop NRPE on the virtual servers or physical services. This post is simply my process I use to drop NRPE on our servers.
yum install nrpe nagios-plugins-all
echo -e "nrpe\t\t5666/tcp\t\t\t# nrpe" >> /etc/services
chkconfig nrpe on
vi /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
/etc/init.d/nrpe start
Hi Chris!
Worked on CENTOS5. Your post saved me from a headache!
Small typo here, on Oracle RHEL the nrpe config file is /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg.
Kyle, thank you, updated!
–Chris