Problem with check_by_ssh

[Matt Simmons]

Are you able to ssh to the remote machine as the remote user? I've
been bitten by not having the remote host in my nagios user's
known_hosts file, and my scripts get prompted, and for some reason
that stops me from obtaining statistics ;-)

--Matt


On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Mario Rimann <mario at rimann.org> wrote:
>
> Hi there
>
> We're experiencing an issue on a new setup where check_by_ssh should run a
> script on a foreign host with two parameters and handle the response.
> Executing the script on the remote server works - but the parameters don't
> get transmitted to the remote server. Afther fiddling around with the
> service and the command definition, I started to run the command on the
> shell to see what happens:
>
> If I run it locally as root, all works out:
> [root at monitoring ~]# /path/to/libexec/check_by_ssh -l root -H
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -v -C "/root/bin/checkSomeThing.sh 300 500"
>
> Running the same stuff as the nagios user fails (script get's called, but
> doesn't get the parameters)
> [nagios at monitoring ~]$  /path/to/libexec/check_by_ssh -l root -H
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -v -C "/root/bin/checkSomeThing.sh 300 500"
>
> I already checked /etc/passwd - but besides the user's names, user-id,
> group-id and the home directory path all looks the same - both have
> /bin/bash as their logon shell.
>
> Any hint?
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>
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