File README.SUSE of Package nrpe
README.SuSE for nagios-nrpe
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= New place for nrpe.cfg =
To allow the use of either Icinga or Nagios, the nrpe.cfg is now
located in /etc/ directly. If you make use of the include_dir
directive, please use the new directory /etc/nrpe.d/ for this.
= Package rename =
The packages
- nagios-nrpe-client
- nagios-nrpe-server
are marked as obsolete.
While seeing the client/server pkg normal user would be misled to
install which package where.
When seeing "server" package you're thinking about a server-daemon
and when seeing "client" you're thinking client which is talking
with the server (NRPE).
But it was just the other way round. :(
Now:
- nrpe (obsoletes nagios-nrpe-client) and provides the NRPE
daemon which should be installed on the remote box which should
be monitored.
- nagios-plugins-nrpe (obsoletes nagios-nrpe-server) and provides
"check_nrpe" which should be installed on the server hosting nagios.
- nrpe-doc contains documentation and can be installed where
ever you want
= Firewall =
The nrpe package ships with a special file for the SuSEfirewall2, that
allows you to open the port via the YaST firewall module or by adding
simply 'nrpe' in the according FW_CONFIGURATIONS_* variable in:
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2
Example:
FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT="sshd nrpe"
will open the standard ports for SSH and NRPE on the external interface.
Have a lot of fun!