Nagios NRPE Server Config

An Ansible role to handle the installation and rollout of the Nagios NRPE Daemon.

I've only selected certain platforms that I know this 100% works on, but it should work on any platform that NRPE can be installed on.

Requirements

RedHat based OS's must have the EPEL repo.

Role Information

This role gives you the ability to deploy plugins on a global and per-server basis. This can be done by putting plugins into files/plugins/global or by creating a folder in files/plugins/ that is the servers FQDN.

You can find out your servers FQDN by running the Ansible Setup module.

Role Variables

nagios_nrpe_server_bind_address: 127.0.0.1
nagios_nrpe_server_port: 5666
nagios_nrpe_server_allowed_hosts: 127.0.0.1

These are OS specific and likely wont want to be changed

Debian:

nagios_nrpe_server_pid: /var/run/nagios/nrpe.pid
nagios_nrpe_server_user: nagios
nagios_nrpe_server_group: nagios
nagios_nrpe_server_service: nagios-nrpe-server
nagios_nrpe_server_plugins_dir: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
nagios_nrpe_server_dir: /etc/nagios

RedHat:

nagios_nrpe_server_pid: /var/run/nrpe/nrpe.pid
nagios_nrpe_server_user: nrpe
nagios_nrpe_server_group: nrpe
nagios_nrpe_server_repo_redhat: epel
nagios_nrpe_server_service: nrpe
nagios_nrpe_server_dir: /etc/nagios

Arhc Linux:

nagios_nrpe_server_pid: /var/run/nrpe/nrpe.pid
nagios_nrpe_server_user: 31
nagios_nrpe_server_group: 31
nagios_nrpe_server_service: nrpe
nagios_nrpe_server_plugins_dir: /usr/lib/monitoring-plugins
nagios_nrpe_server_dir: /etc/nrpe

Dependencies

N/A

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - mooash.nagios-nrpe-server
   vars:
     nagios_nrpe_server_allowed_hosts: 192.168.0.1,127.0.0.1

License

MIT

Author Information

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certifiedloud / nagios-nrpe-server