Using Nagios with NRPE

To perform service checks over NRPE is made much easier by utilizing Puppet to push your configs and restart the nrpe daemon.

Examples

check_nrpe command invoked from command line

check_zombie_procs...

./check_nrpe -H hostname -c check_zombie_procs

check for a specific process

./check_nrpe -H hostname -c check_proc -a puppetd