launching ssh session via action_url (or other mechanism)

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Eric,
 
I'm not sure if PuTTY or other SSH clients support the ssh:// URL 
handler directly, but if not you can add it yourself.  See the MSDN 
documentation at the URL below.  You could add a protocol handler for 
the "ssh://" protocol, then if you put "ssh://192.168.0.1" as your URL 
in Nagios, the client PC will launch the application you put in the 
registry and pass it "192.168.0.1" as the "%1" argument.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914.aspx

E.g. your "shell open command" for PuTTY would be something like: 
"C:\|putty.exe" -ssh "%1"|

I've done a similar thing with an application I manage at work and it 
was really easy.  The only downside is the registry has to be updated on 
every PC, but you could export the registry key as a .reg file and pass 
it around to those who need it.

I believe it's a system-wide thing, so it should work in Firefox as 
well, but don't quote me on it.

Regards,
Andy

Eric Pearce wrote:
> I'd like to be able click on the link presented by action_url in the 
> Nagios display or $HOSTACTIONURL$ in a notfication email and have it 
> open a SSH session to the host in question.
> I found several people saying this is possible in the mailing list 
> archives, but I don't see any detailed examples or instructions.   I'm 
> not a java programmer.
> I don't think the IE-specific telnet:// registry hack is good enough - 
> I want to be able to use Firefox as well.
> I'm running nagios 3.0.6 and 1.4.13 plugins
> Thanks for any pointers.
> -e
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