<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C3BFD2.C866BF00">  <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> I looked through a lot of the mail list archives and didn’t see this problem listed by anyone else. It’s a bit long winded but I figure being verbose is better than not being verbose enough. So here goes.<o:p></o:p> We are using nagios to monitor multiple UNIX systems, including Solaris 2.6 8 & 9. Our method for doing so is public keys saved in the “authorized_keys” file of each nagios client’s home directory etc… When our server runs the “check_by_ssh” against solaris 9 clients, the nagios server claims it is getting a status of “UNKNOWN”. I dug in to the documentation to find out that this is figured out via return codes, IE 0,1,2,3 etc… So I ran check_by_ssh against the system in question to see for myself what the problem was. I am only able to get return codes of 0 “OK”. I’ll show the syntax I used below. I can get it to also give return codes of 1 and 2 if I intentionally invoke a warning or critical condition, but when it is run from the nagios process itself it shows up as “UNKNOWN”, and occasionally flaps to okay for brief periods of time, even though the status output shows the disks are perfectly okay.<o:p></o:p> Here is my output from my tests….<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> […]<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -H 12.40.185.175 -C '/opt/nagios/libexec/check_disk -c 10% -w 20%'<o:p></o:p> $ echo $?<o:p></o:p> 0<o:p></o:p> $<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> […]<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I even had this running in a continual loop to see if maybe 1 out of 10 would go in to an UNKNOWN state, but it doesn’t. I will paste the portions of my config that should matter for this output. I really appreciate any help you guys can give me.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> /*<o:p></o:p> * Command Definition<o:p></o:p> ********************************/<o:p></o:p> # 'check_remote_disk' command definaition<o:p></o:p> define command {<o:p></o:p> command_name check_remote_disk<o:p></o:p> command_line $USER1$/check_by_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C '/opt/nagios/libexec/check_disk -c 10% -w 20%'<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> /*<o:p></o:p> * Host Definition<o:p></o:p> ********************************/<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> define host {<o:p></o:p> use generic-host<o:p></o:p> host_name gondor<o:p></o:p> alias Minneapolis Production Webserver (gondor)<o:p></o:p> address 12.40.185.175<o:p></o:p> check_command check-host-alive<o:p></o:p> max_check_attempts 10<o:p></o:p> notification_interval 10<o:p></o:p> notification_period 24x7<o:p></o:p> notification_options d,u,r<o:p></o:p> parents mspfw1<o:p></o:p> }<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks again for any help, if you need anymore output that this let me know.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Patrick.<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>