Overview Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) is an agent used by Nagios xi for communicating with remote hosts. Remote hosts are operating systems like Linux and Windows.   This KB article explains: How Nagios xi sends requests to the NRPE Agent... Read More

Overview The NRPE addon is designed to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on remote Linux/Unix machines.  The main reason for doing this is to allow Nagios to monitor "local" resources (like CPU load, memory usage, etc.) on remote machines.  Since... Read More

Overview This KB article discusses NRPE and the network packet size used in the different versions of the client and the check_nrpe plugin.     Nomenclature The following explains the terms used in this document. Client / Agent This is what is... Read More

Overview This KB article discusses NRPE v3 and the new security features implemented in that version. A 2048-bit DH key is used instead of a 512-bit key The ssl_version directive lets you set which versions of SSL/TLS you want to allow (TLSv2+ by... Read More