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.

Currently supports:

Ubuntu
- Precise
- Trusty
CentOS
- 7.2

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

Ubuntu:

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/nrpe.d
*nagios_nrpe_managed_files: ['nrpe.cfg']

CentOS:

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
nagios_nrpe_managed_files: ['nrpe.cfg']

Dependencies

RedHat based OS's must have the EPEL repo.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
     - gregfaust.nagios_nrpe
   vars:
     nagios_nrpe_server_allowed_hosts:
       - 192.168.0.1
       - 127.0.0.1
     nagios_nrpe_server_bind_address: 127.0.0.1
     nagios_nrpe_server_port: 5666

License

MIT

Author Information

Forked from Mooash here