check_by_ssh commands

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I'm glad you got it working.

However, based on what you pasted to the list, it appears
you didn't have a closing quotation mark.  That would
definitely create the symptom you were witnessing.  ;)

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Dunn [mailto:Brad at pretzel.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 10:47 PM
> To: Brad Dunn; 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] RE: check_by_ssh commands
> 
> 
> Sorry, I realise I just needed the -l switch on the 
> ./check_by_ssh command
> as well. My mistake.
> 
> Brad
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Dunn 
> Sent: Thursday, 22 May 2003 11:33 AM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: 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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