How To Install nrpe on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe
on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nrpe.
Install nrpe on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nrpe
using yum
by running the following command:
Install 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.
After updating yum database, We can install nrpe
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall nrpe on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nrpe
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nrpe
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.