check_by_ssh commands

[Jamie Baddeley]

what is the -p / arg?

that'll be what's doing it.

get rid of that and make woody/sarge/sid sing.

jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Dunn" <Brad at pretzel.com.au>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh commands


> Hi there, I'm running Nagios on a Debian Linux machine and am just started
> to setup some checks using the "check_by_ssh" and have run into a bit of
a
> problem. to make things easier I've got HOSTA and HOSTB. I've setup all
the
> SSH public keys etc so that HOSTA (the nagios server) Can login to HOSTB
> without the password and only using the public keys etc . In this case a
> check_disk over check_by_ssh. It logs in no worries.
>
>
> This is how it works when I just try to SSH from HOSTA to HOSTB
> debian:~# ssh -l nagios HOSTB
> It then displays me with the MOTD
>
> however my problem arrises when I try to either run the command manually
> from the libexec directory.
> ./check_by_ssh -H HOSTB -C './check_disk -w 30% -c 10% -p /
> it just sits at a prompt like so
> >
>
>
> Now I'm assuming now that I think about it, the reason its probably not
> working, is because when I try running it manually, I'm not specifying the
> user nagios on my remote machine, so the check_ssh its trying to ssh as
root
> and thus getting prompted for the password. How exactly do I do a
check_ssh
> and specify the user at the same time?
>
>
>
> also I noticed that within nagios itself, if the checks are all just
> running, this particular check displays
> Check Disk SSH   WARNING22-05-2003 18:41:340d 0h 38m 59s4/4Permission
> denied, please try again.
>
> This is my checkcommands.cfg
>
> # 'check_disk_ssh' command definition
> define command{
>          command_name    check_disk_ssh
>          command_line    $USER1$/check_by_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C
> './check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p /'
>          }
>
>
> And this is my services.cfg
> # Service definition
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service         ; Name of
> service template to use
>
>         host_name                       HOSTB
>         service_description             Check Disk SSH
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              4
>         normal_check_interval           1
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  linux-admins
>         notification_interval           960
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r
>         check_command                   check_disk_ssh!75%!85%
>         }
>
> Thanks
>
> -Brad
>
>
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