By default, NRPE is configured to run only the predefined commands, and it is not possible to pass any arguments to the commands that will be run. In some cases, s for example with a large number of partitions mounted on various servers, this is hard to manage as changes to the command configurations need to be done at the remote machine level, not at the central Nagios server level.

In such cases, it might be worth investigating an option included in NRPE to pass arguments to commands. This option is disabled by default as it is considered to be a large security concern. This is because is possible to send malicious arguments to a check command and make it perform actions other than the ones it should be doing. It is recommended that you keep the option disabled as this is a more secure option. However, if lowering the level of security is not a concern, it is possible to enable this functionality within the NRPE daemon. It allows easier management of NRPE and...