check_by_ssh question

[Arnold Cano]

Thanks for the response. Are you using check_by_ssh for indirect checks?
I'm curious about the issues with remote networks and firewalls. For
example, I'd like to setup check_by_ssh to tunnel into a machine that
can in turn check_by_ssh the other machines in the network.

Can someone explain the following to me? It's a stub from the output of
'check_by_ssh -h'. Perhaps an example would help?

"If the remote SSH server tracks invocation agruments, the one remote
program may be an agent that can execute additional commands as proxy

To use passive mode, provide multiple '-C' options, and provide
all of -O, -s, and -n options (servicelist order must match '-C'
options)"

Thanks,

Arnold

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 15:52, Matt Pounsett wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Arnold Cano wrote:
> 
> > allowing shell access? Cygwin perhaps? I realize the initial setup will
> > require the public keys and null passphrase to be setup but that seems
> > worth it for the security and ongoing maintenance. Am I missing
> > anything? Is there a better way?
> 
> I'm not using check_by_ssh for any windows servers, since the only things I
> need to directly check on them are remotely-accessible services (smb and so
> forth).. however, I am using check_by_ssh extensively with all of our unix
> servers.  It seemed to me to be the best way to do things, since all methods
> require *some* work on the client machines (installing check scripts, at a
> minimum), and other methods (such as NRPE) don't provide the same level of
> security.



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