How To Install nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7.
What is nagios-plugins-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 nrpe plugin for Nagios-related applications.
We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins-nrpe.
Install nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins-nrpe using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-nrpe
Install nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins-nrpe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-nrpe
How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-nrpe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-nrpe
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-nrpe on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.