check_by_ssh anomaly

[Patrick Morris]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2007, Daniel Tandowski wrote:

> I appreciate your quick response, ssh known_hosts / authorized_keys was my 
> first culprit also... unfortunately, this doesn't explain why it would work 
> correctly when I run the same command nagios is running from the CLI (using 
> the same key)!? 
> 
> #/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -t 60 -H <IP-Address> -l root -i
> <RSA Key> -C /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_backup_log

It's the host key, not the private key, so if you're checking as root
(and it looks like you are), you're not looking at the same known_hosts
as Nagios is.

Log in as the Nagios user or store the host's key in the known_hosts
file Nagios looks at when it logs in.

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