check_by_ssh

[Sean Knox]

Things to consider: is there a lot of traffic on your network(s)? is DNS 
resolution setup correctly? are your keys properly setup? the monitored 
hosts under a lot of load? is your nagios machine under a lot of load?

Timothy Moore wrote:

> I am using check_by_ssh to check services on monitored hosts.  I have 
> load, users, procs, disk space, etc. turned up for 5 or 6 systems.
>
> The problem:  It consistently fails "Every other time".  When I run an 
> availability report it is beautifully striped!
> One system returns "Unknown" status every other time, even though the 
> message output states OK on all 5 service checks.  Another system 
> returns "Critical" every other time, with a plugin timeout after 30 
> sec. for the disk space check.  A duplicate system works fine?  
> Running from the command line works every time.  (Note: nrpe   
> "monitor-agent" models won't work for me)
> TWM
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