diff --git a/puppet/modules/site_nagios/manifests/server.pp b/puppet/modules/site_nagios/manifests/server.pp
index ae266c36c7542b109527d85b5f9705df953e8db0..cb6c8d95b05983b06052dfae7bb1c5f6956a888f 100644
--- a/puppet/modules/site_nagios/manifests/server.pp
+++ b/puppet/modules/site_nagios/manifests/server.pp
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# configures nagios on monitoring node
 class site_nagios::server inherits nagios::base {
 
   # First, purge old nagios config (see #1467)
@@ -42,10 +43,11 @@ class site_nagios::server inherits nagios::base {
 
   # deploy serverside plugins
   file { '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_openvpn_server.pl':
-    source => 'puppet:///modules/nagios/plugins/check_openvpn_server.pl',
-    mode   => '0755',
-    owner  => 'nagios',
-    group  => 'nagios',
+    source  => 'puppet:///modules/nagios/plugins/check_openvpn_server.pl',
+    mode    => '0755',
+    owner   => 'nagios',
+    group   => 'nagios',
+    require => Package['nagios-plugins'];
   }
 
   create_resources ( site_nagios::add_host_services, $nagios_hosts )