Remote plugin on client

[nsteiner]

Hi all
First time here so please be tolerant with me

I am trying to understand if it is possible to run a nagios check on a client using a check script on the client and not on the server.
Something like maybe a perl script that count the number of files in a directory ...

Is that at all possible ?
if so, how ?

Thanks
nsteiner

[luca]

You are probably looking for NRPE... It's available on the nagios homepage.
Or you can try to use check_by_ssh which is in some ways easier... (not recomennded if you have lots of checks on remote servers).