Ansible Role: Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE)
An Ansible role that installs and configures NRPE.
Table of Contents
Requirements
- Ansible 2+
Role Variables
These are all variables and their default values:
nrpe_log_facility: 'daemon'
nrpe_pid_file: '/var/run/nrpe/nrpe.pid'
nrpe_server_port: '5666'
nrpe_user: 'nrpe'
nrpe_group: 'nrpe'
nrpe_allowed_hosts:
- '127.0.0.1'
- '::1'
nrpe_dont_blame: '0'
nrpe_allow_bash_command_substitution: '0'
nrpe_debug: '0'
nrpe_command_timeout: '60'
nrpe_connection_timeout: '300'
nrpe_commands:
- name: 'check_users'
line: '/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_users -w 5 -c 10'
- name: 'check_load'
line: '/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_load -r -w .15,.10,.05 -c .30,.25,.20'
- name: 'check_hda1'
line: '/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/hda1'
- name: 'check_zombie_procs'
line: '/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -s Z'
- name: 'check_total_procs'
line: '/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 150 -c 200'
Dependencies
This role conditionally depends on geerlingguy.repo-epel for RedHat-based distributions to install runtime and build dependencies. Not all of these dependencies are included in default repositories.
Example Playbook
Add to requirements.yml:
---
# optional
# - src: geerlingguy.repo-epel
- src: idiv-biodiversity.nrpe
...Download:
$ ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.ymlTop-Level Playbook
Write a top-level playbook:
---
- name: head server
hosts: head
roles:
- role: idiv-biodiversity.nrpe
tags:
- icinga
- nagios
- nrpe
...Role Dependency
Define the role dependency in meta/main.yml:
---
dependencies:
- role: idiv-biodiversity.nrpe
tags:
- icinga
- nagios
- nrpe
...License
MIT
Author Information
This role was created in 2017 by Christian Krause aka wookietreiber at GitHub, HPC cluster systems administrator at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), based on a draft by Ben Langenberg aka sloan87 at GitHub.