NRPE stands for ‘Nagios Remote Plugin Executor’. As the name suggests, it allows you to execute Nagios plugins remotely on other Linux or Unix machines.
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It can help monitor remote machine performance metrics such as disk usage, CPU load, etc. It can communicate with some of the Windows agent add-ons. We can execute scripts and check metrics on remote Windows machines as well.
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