1 This Nagios addon is designed to provide a way for executing plugins on
2 a remote host. The check_nrpe plugin runs on the Nagios host and is used
3 to send plugin execution requests to the nrpe agent on the remote
4 host. The nrpe agent will then run an appropriate plugins on the
5 remote host and return the plugin output and return code to the
6 check_nrpe plugin on the Nagios host.