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Chapter 10: Nagios Integration
10.3.2 Enable NRPE monitoring
Enabling NRPE allows you to execute plug-ins (such as
check_tcp
and
check_ping
) on the remote Console Server to monitor
serial or network attached remote servers. This will offload CPU load from the upstream Nagios monitoring machine which is
especially valuable if you are monitoring hundreds or thousands of hosts. To enable NRPE:
• Select
System: Nagios
and check
NRPE Enabled
• Enter the details for the user connection to the upstream Nagios monitoring server. Again, refer to the sample Nagios
configuration example below for details of configuring specific NRPE checks
By default, the Console Server will accept a connection between the upstream Nagios monitoring server and the NRPE server
with SSL encryption, without SSL, or tunneled through SSH. The security for the connection is configured at the Nagios server.