Here’s a step by step installation of the Nagios plugin NRPE for Solaris 10 x86 (as the remote host): useradd -c “nagios system user” -d /usr/local/nagios -m nagios chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/ cd /usr/local/src # or wherever you like to put source code wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nrpe-2.12.tar.gz wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiospl