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How to monitor server memory usage with Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE)

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Sep 9, 2014

In a previous tutorial, we have seen how we can set up Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE) in an existing Nagios setup. However, the scripts and plugins needed to monitor memory usage do not come with Nagios. In this tutorial, we will see how we can configure NRPE to monitor RAM usage of a remote server.

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