check_by_ssh vs. ssh (when executed, have different environments)

[John P. Rouillard]

In message <A7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA05371A24 at misex01.ena.com>,
"Marc Powell" writes:
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
>> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of John P. Rouillard
>>
>> Also supposedly check_by_ssh can run checks for multiple services at
>> the same time. See the -C, -O and -s arguments. I have never been able
>> to get it to work. With this feature you could run a single ssh to
>> execute say 5 check_disk commands. As I said I haven't gotten it to
>> work, but it could cut down on the number of ssh connections that are
>> needed.
>
>It can but I haven't tried that myself either. It does so by appending a
>';echo STATUS CODE: $?;' (or very close to that) to each command that
>you pass then parses the output to get the return code for each plugin
>executed. I believe the end command passed to ssh would look something
>like --
>
>/path/to/ssh -other -args user at host "command1;echo STATUS CODE:
>$?;command2;echo STATUS CODE: $?;..."

Yup that's almost exactly what it does. It doesn't appear to work
properly however. I have tried to debug it, but I have yet to be able
to get it to work. From the response I have gotten on the plugins
list nobody else seems to have got it working either.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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