Install NRPE on CentOS 7

Posted on by Jordansphere

1) Install required packages 

yum -y install wget openssl-devel

2)  Download latest NRPE agent
  

cd /tmp
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/agents/linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz

 

3)  Unzip NRPEagent 

tar xzf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz

4)  Install agent
  

cd linux-nrpe-agent
./fullinstall

You will get asked which hosts to add. include your Nagios Server here

nrpe1

In this case my Nagios server is 10.0.0.50

6)  Test it is listening on port 

telnet 0 5666

7) Open up firewall ports if required. 

firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5666/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload