Nagios Plugins
• Plugins are compiled executables or scripts(Perl or non-Perl) that extends Nagios functionality to monitor servers and hosts
• Nagios will execute a Plugin to check the status of a service or host
• Nagios can be compiled with support for an embedded Perl interpreter to execute Perl plugins
• Without it, Nagios executes Perl and non-Perl plugins by forking and executing the plugins as an external command
Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE)
• NRPE allows you to remotely execute Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines. This allows you to monitor remote machine metrics such as disk usage, CPU load etc
• It can communicate with some of the Windows agent addons, so you can execute scripts and check metrics on remote Windows machines as well
Nagios Remote Data Processor
• Nagios Remote Data Processor (NRDP) is an agent which allows flexible data transport
• It uses standard protocols such as: https:// , XML
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