How To Install nrpe on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe on CentOS 8.
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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nrpe.
Install nrpe on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install nrpe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nrpe
Install nrpe on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nrpe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nrpe
nrpe Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
/etc/nrpe.d
/etc/sysconfig/nrpe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/ac53e2031e5335ac6240f6d42d73dc09fdf59d
/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/LICENSE.md
/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
/var/run/nrpe
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.