"Agentless" monitoring with Nagios?

[Jason Martin]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 02:37:09PM -0700, Keller, Steve wrote:
> You can get it from openssh.com.  Directions on setting up persistent
Ooh, OpenSSH version 4. That makes more sense.

> connections are in the installation files.  It basically just requires a
> config file in ~/.ssh and a directory underneath it to store temp files
I see now, the ControlMaster / ControlPath directives. I think
you'll still need something like fsh as these directives appear
to only help when you have multiple connections to the same
host running concurrently, not when you want to cache a
connection over a long period of time. 

-Jason Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Martin [mailto:jhmartin at toger.us] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:12 PM
> To: Eli Stair
> Cc: Keller, Steve; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] "Agentless" monitoring with Nagios?
> 
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:13:08PM -0700, Eli Stair wrote:
> > in most situations (for me), and actually consumes less cycles on BOTH
> > ends... This FSH project looks promising, though hasn't been updated
> since
> > 2001... A scary prospect for anything that is crypto/authentication
> based :)
> I think it just acts as a 'ssh session manager' and doesn't do
> any crypto itself.
> 
> > Then again, check_by_fsh sounds nice too!  Have to look at SSH4
> features now
> > that you mentioned it Steve.
> Can you provide a link to SSH4? I'm not seeing anything relevant
> on google.
> 
> -Jason Martin

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