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NAME

Nagios::NRPE - A Nagios NRPE implementation in pure perl

SYNOPSIS

# Executing a check on an NRPE-Server
my $client = Nagios::NRPE::Client->new( host => "localhost", check => 'check_cpu');
my $response = $client->run();
if(defined $response->{error}) {
print "ERROR: Couldn't run check ".$client->check()." because of: ".$response->{reason}."\n";
} else {
print $response->{status}."\n";
}
# Reading and Writing Nagios NRPE Packets
# Import necessary constants into Namespace
use Nagios::NRPE::Packet qw(NRPE_PACKET_VERSION_3
NRPE_PACKET_QUERY
STATE_UNKNOWN
STATE_CRITICAL
STATE_WARNING
STATE_OK);
my $packet = Nagios::NRPE::Packet->new();
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
PeerAddr => $host,
PeerPort => $port,
Proto => 'tcp',
Type => SOCK_STREAM) or die "ERROR: $@ \n";
print $socket $packet->assemble(type => NRPE_PACKET_QUERY,
buffer => "check_load 1 2 3",
version => NRPE_PACKET_VERSION_3 );
my $data = <$socket>;
my $response = $packet->disassemble($data);
print $response->{buffer};

DESCRIPTION

This file currently only serves as a stub so Build.PL will find it. For more information on the submodules please read Nagios::NRPE::Client or Nagios::NRPE::Packet or Nagios::NRPE::Daemon.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2018 by the authors (see AUTHORS file).

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.