NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) is an open-source project that allows you to remotely execute Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines.
To download the latest release of NRPE:
- zip: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/archive/3.0.zip
- tar: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/archive/3.0.tar.gz
The newest release incorporates a number of new features, including:
- Fixes for two security holes
- Improvements to signal handling, stabilizing the program
- Fixes to several crash and startup issues
- Fixes to “allowed_hosts” processing problems
- check_nrpe can now use an optional config file
- Capabilities to handle packet sizes of up to 64KB
- Capabilities for a larger payload size with NSClient++
- Increased key size for Diffie-Hellman encryption
- Ability to use public-key encryption by default if available
- Ability to specify minimum SSL/TLS version
- Ability to check and/or require client certificates
- Expanded “make install” commands to create users and groups
- Can configure, compile, install, and run on many more systems, including most Linux distributions, BSD, OS X, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris
- Ability to use “-t <seconds>:<status>” format in check_nrpe
