1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
   • What nrpe affects
   • Setup requirements
   • Beginning with nrpe
4. Usage
5. Reference
6. Limitations
7. Development
   • TODO
   • Contributing

NRPE setup and configuration

This module installs NRPE and manages it's configuration file

• A list of files, packages, services, or operations that the module will alter, impact, or execute on the system it's installed on.
• This is a great place to stick any warnings.
• Can be in list or paragraph form.
• On Ubuntu 16.04 installs PPA dontblamenrpe

This module requires pluginsync enabled

class { '::nrpe':
  dont_blame_nrpe   => true,
  allowed_hosts     => [ '1.2.3.4', '1.1.1.1' ],
  nrpe_conf_dir     => '/etc/nagios/nrpe.d/',
  nrpe_conf_purge   => false,
  nrpe_conf_recurse => true,
}

nrpe::command { 'check_plugin_custom':
  command => '$ARG1$',
}

• dont_blame_nrpe: # This option determines whether or not the NRPE daemon will allow clients to specify arguments to commands that are executed. (default: false) - WARNING: On Ubuntu 16.04 this option is ignored due to a supposed security risk
• allow_bash_command_substitution = false
• debug = false
• command_timeout = '60'
• connection_timeout = '300'
• allow_weak_random_seed = false
• install_plugins = true
• allowed_hosts = [ '127.0.0.1' ]
• command_prefix = undef
• nrped_purge = true
• nrped_recurse = true
• server_address = undef
• server_port = '5666'
• username = $nrpe::params::username_default,
• group = $nrpe::params::group_default,
• nrpe_conf_dir = $nrpe::params::nrpe_conf_dir_default,

Tested on:

• CentOS 5
• CentOS 6
• CentOS 7
• Ubuntu 14.04

We are pushing to have acceptance testing in place, so any new feature should have some test to check both presence and absence of any feature

• multi instance support
• enable/disable SSL support

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request