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diff --git a/network/nrpe/README b/network/nrpe/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..06c1426952 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/nrpe/README @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +nrpe (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) + +The NRPE addon is designed to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on +remote Linux/Unix machines. The main reason for doing this is to allow +Nagios to monitor "local" resources (like CPU load, memory usage, +etc.) remote machines. Since these public resources are not usually +exposed to external machines, an agent like NRPE must be installed on +the remote Linux/Unix machines. |