submitting external commands remotely

[Peter Krüpl]

Hi,

    I doubt you can use sockets over NFS, someone correct me if i am wrong.
    What you could do is to execute the script on the nagios host, via ssh.

    If you normaly do this on the nagios host: scheduledowntine.sh host 
ServerA 13:00 14:00

    You could do this on a remote machine: ssh nagioshost 
"scheduledowntine.sh host ServerA 13:00 14:00"

    You would be prompted for a password every time you do this, but you
    could use rsa/dsa keys, then there would be no need to enter a 
password each time.

    Safe and simple.... :)

    Cheers,
    Peter

Iphtashu Fitz wrote:

> I have a handful of scripts that I've written that submit commands to 
> our Nagios monitor remotely, so I'm pretty comfortable with working 
> with external commands.  I now need to be able to submit external 
> commands from an external host.  In a nutshell I want to schedule 
> downtime of specific services based on recurring tasks that are run on 
> those remote machines.  I've written a script that will schedule 
> service downtime and it works fine when I run it on the nagios 
> server.  I tried exporting the nagios/var directory via NFS and 
> mounted it from one of the remote machines so that they could write to 
> nagios.cmd.  But when I run the script on these remote machines Nagios 
> never responds to those external commands.  The script appears to 
> successfully write to the NFS mounted nagios.cmd but Nagios never gets 
> the message, and it never shows up in nagios.log. 
>
> Is it possible for a remote machine to communicate with Nagios this 
> way (NFS mounted nagios.cmd), or is there a better approach for 
> submitting external commands from an external host?
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