Going Nuts trying to get check_by_ssh to work

[Onotsky, Steve x55328]

Steve F.,

 

Try `touch .hushlogin` as the nagios user, in its homedir, on the target
host.  That *should* cause ssh to suppress any remote-side banner/motd
from being displayed in-session.

 

I learned that one a few years ago, when automating some business logic,
to reduce the amount of logging taking place.  It should suit your
purposes here (if it is, in fact, that extra line of text that's
throwing off the check).

 

Cheers

 

 

From: steve f [mailto:a31modela at hotmail.com] 
Sent: July-13-10 18:34
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Going Nuts trying to get check_by_ssh to
work

 

If I remember, that line is in the sshd.config for the auth users
banner.  I should be able to comment it out to test it.

Didn't think about that...  I'll dial in when I get home & try it..

Thanks Benny for the info,
Steve

> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:35 -0500
> From: benny at bennyvision.com
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Going Nuts trying to get check_by_ssh to
work
> 
> 
> > I also tried this as well from the server , which does work....
> >
> > ssh 172.xx.xx.xx /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users -w 5 -c 8
> >
> > Authorized users only.
> >
> > USERS OK - 0 users currently logged in |users=0;5;8;0
> >
> >
> > This tells me that
> > 1. ssh as Nagios works
> > 2. the check_users script runs on the remote client fine
> > 3. 2 - way communication is good between the client & sever as I got
the
> > response back
> >
> > I am thinking there has to be something funky in the check_by_ssh
script.
> > Sound right ??
> 
> Waitaminute... Where did that "Authorized users only" part come
> from?
> 
> Nagios expects a single line of text, and SSH commands typically
> don't display banners (in my experience). Is that a banner that
> appears from the remote host? I wonder if that is confusing
> things. Can it be temporarily disabled to see if it changes the
> behavior?
> 
> Benny
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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