The purpose of this addon is to allow you to execute Nagios plugins on a remote
host in as transparent a manner as possible.

Nrpe is a system daemon that will execute various Nagios plugins locally on
behalf of a remote (monitoring) host that uses the check_nrpe plugin. Various
plugins that can be executed by the daemon are available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug

This package provides the core agent.