check_ssh plugin causing too many log messageswritten in /var/log/messages

[Aaron Segura]

Instead of using 'check_ssh', you can use 'check_by_ssh' and just run a
simple command like '/bin/ls /tmp' to verify connectivity.  This way,
the ssh handshake is completed and there's no need to log a 'Read from
socket failed' message.

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Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:34 PM
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Subject: [Nagios-users] check_ssh plugin causing too many log
messageswritten in /var/log/messages

Hi,

Is there a way to make Nagios stop writing the messages like the
following in the /var/log/messages on remote host:


Jan  8 10:01:00 serverabc sshd[12110]: [ID 800047 auth.crit] fatal: Read
from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

This happens whenever nagios makes a check using check_ssh to a remote
host. This entry is written in the logs of remote host to which Nagios
is trying to check the availability of ssh daemon. It looks like that
Nagios is trying to make ssh connection to check for this service but it
does not actually do it and then it disconnects the connection abruptly
(hence the entry like above is written)
 

I do not understand why does it happen on some of the machines while for
others there is no entry written in the logs. This is just causing too
many messages written in the logs on remote Solaris machines and this is
getting too annoying. Please enlighten us on how to cope with this
nuisance? Thanks in advance.

--Shahid

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