How To Install nrpe on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe in Fedora 36. nrpe is Host/service/network monitoring agent for Nagios

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe on Fedora 36.

What is `nrpe`

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 This package provides the core agent.

We can use yum or dnf to install nrpe on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nrpe.

Install nrpe on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nrpe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nrpe

Install nrpe on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nrpe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nrpe

How To Uninstall nrpe on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the nrpe package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nrpe

nrpe Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
/etc/nrpe.d
/etc/sysconfig/nrpe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/4c04418ad4c6407015e32f48ab64e8399f1809
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nrpe.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nrpe.conf
/usr/sbin/nrpe
/usr/share/doc/nrpe
/usr/share/doc/nrpe/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/nrpe/LEGAL
/usr/share/doc/nrpe/NRPE.pdf
/usr/share/doc/nrpe/README.SSL.md
/usr/share/doc/nrpe/README.md
/usr/share/doc/nrpe/SECURITY.md
/usr/share/licenses/nrpe
/usr/share/licenses/nrpe/LICENSE.md
/var/run/nrpe

References

nrpe website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).