NAGIOS - check_by_ssh failed

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Hi Neal,

Have you tried running your command as the Nagios user?
Also does /usr/bin/ssh exist on your Nagios machine?

Just a couple of ideas.

Regards,

Andy.

Neal.Giger at chandleraz.gov wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> I am having an issue with the check_by_ssh plugin and was wondering if 
> someone could lend a hand.  I have compiled and installed both NAGIOS 
> version  2.5 and the nagios-plugins 1.4.4 on EL4.
>
> When trying to execute the check_by_ssh_plugin  and telling it to run 
> just a basic file listing command on a HPUX 11.11 host I receive the 
> following error:
>
> ./check_by_ssh -v -H 10.1.9.21 -t 60 -n hpux2 -C '/usr/bin/ll /tmp'
> /usr/bin/ssh 10.1.9.21 '/usr/bin/ll /tmp'
> Remote command execution failed:
>
> However If I just cut and past the verbose output from the command 
> calling ssh directly I have no problems:
>
> /usr/bin/ssh 10.1.9.21 '/usr/bin/ll /tmp'
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Neal J. Giger
> City of Chandler - Information Technology
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