diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
index da2c2399..a9479365 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
@@ -121,3 +121,10 @@
   service: name='tomcat-instance-{{ smartgears_http_port }}' state=restarted
   when: smartgears_force_restart is defined and smartgears_force_restart
   tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_conf', 'tomcat' ]
+
+- name: Install the Nagios NRPE configuration for smartgears
+  template: src=smartgears-nrpe.cfg.j2 dest=/etc/nagios/nrpe.d/smartgears-nrpe.cfg owner=root group=root mode=444
+  notify: Reload NRPE server
+  when: nagios_enabled
+  tags: [ 'smartgears', 'smartgears_nrpe', 'nagios', 'nagios_nrpe' ]
+
diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/templates/smartgears-nrpe.cfg.j2 b/smartgears/smartgears/templates/smartgears-nrpe.cfg.j2
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..31a0cd1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/templates/smartgears-nrpe.cfg.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+# Restart SmartGears (via handler)
+command[global_restart_smartgears]=/usr/bin/sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat-instance-{{ smartgears_http_port }} start
+