1 title: MRPE: MK's Remote Plugin Executor
2 agents: linux, aix, solaris, hpux, macosx, netbsd, openbsd, freebsd
7 The MRPE is a simple and efficient way to use standard Nagios
8 Plugins with the {check_mk_agent} and thus emulate NRPE to
9 a certain degree. Its main usage is to allow a soft migration
10 from NRPE to check_mk and to use third party Nagios plugins
11 that are running locally on your target hosts.
13 This check type processes the MRPE section in the output of the
15 all levels and parameters are configured on the target host,
16 no parameters are needed here. Please refer to the online
17 documentation on how to configure the agent.
19 The current version of the {mrpe} check is now cluster-aware
20 and works well as a {clustered_service} (see article about
21 Check_MK cluster monitoring). If an MRPE check is found on
22 more than one node, then the best status of the checks is
23 being used. So if the check is critical on one of the nodes
24 and OK on another then the status, output and performance
25 data of the OK check is being used as the gross result of the check.
28 The service description of the check as configured in {mrpe.cfg}
32 All plugins configured in {mrpe.cfg} are automatically inventorized.