diff --git a/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp b/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp
index ce297582..04e2806a 100644
--- a/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp
+++ b/global/overlay/etc/puppet/manifests/cosmos-site.pp
@@ -675,8 +675,4 @@ class nagios_monitor {
    #   description    => 'check https certificate validity on port 443',
    #   contact_groups => ['alerts']
    #}
-
-class nic_checks {
-  sunet::nagios::nrpe_check_nagios { 'nagios': }
-}
 }