Question

What is the purpose of the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE)?

a) To allow external applications to interact with Nagios

b) To provide an interface for creating custom plugins

c) To manage Nagios configuration files

d) To execute Nagios plugins on remote hosts

Answer 1

Solution: d) To execute Nagios plugins on remote hosts

Reason: The purpose of the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) is to execute Nagios plugins on remote hosts and report the results back to the Nagios server.