For Redhat 5.4 or CentOS 5.4 can just add rpmforge repository .. then do the following to the monitoring host. yum install nagios-nrpe nagios-nrpe-plugins -y which pretty much covered in
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Installing Nagios 3 in CentOS 5.2Installing Nagios 3 in CentOS 5.2
Nagios is one of the powerful network device monitoring and visualization.. I did bump on this software few year back.. but never got chance to play with it. just saw