check_by_ssh

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Robert Fitzpatrick
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 10:01 AM
> To: Nagios
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh
> 
> Trying to use check_by_ssh and can't seem to get the -C argument
right.
> I am getting a WARNING with this:
> 
> Bad escape character ' 60 -F /var/spool/nagios/nagios.log -C
> /usr/local/bin/nagios'
> 
> This is the way I have my checkcommand and service setup, I tried
> without the single quotes and it gave me an UNKNOWN error. I also
tried
> breaking the check_by_ssh arguments up into three checkcommand
arguments
> and tried passing three different arguments with the service, no help.
> 
> # 'check_by_ssh' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_by_ssh
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_by_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C
'$ARG1$'
>         }
> 
> define service{
>           use                   generic-service
>           hostgroup_name        nagios-servers
>           service_description   NAGIOS
>           contact_groups        admins
>           check_command         check_by_ssh!-e 60 -F
> /var/spool/nagios/nagios.log -C/usr/local/bin/nagios
>         }
> 
> When I run from the command line, all works. This is the first time
I've
> tried to use check_by_ssh, would appreciate some guidance.

You must be running something different from the command line as the
above could never work. Check_by_ssh is expecting -C to be a full path
and command to run on a remote host. I'm doing the same kind of thing
with --


define command {
    command_name                   check_nagios
    command_line                   $USER1$/check_by_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$
-C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios
/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat 5 'bin/nagios'"
    }

You're telling it to run the command "-e 60 -F ..." on the remote host
which isn't valid and since it starts with '-e' that check_by_ssh is
going to interpret that as an option to itself.

HTH 

--
Marc

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