I don't understand the check_by_ssh plugin

[Andy Shellam]

David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> I'm running Nagios 2.10 (the Centos 5.2 packaged version).
>
> I want to do some small local checks on each of a bunch of real and
> virtual servers, and I really don't want to have to set up Nagios (even a
> minimal install) on each of them just to check uptime, load average, and
> disk space.  (Mostly I'm testing externally visible services on them.)
>   

You'd be better off using NRPE - yes, you need NRPE and the Nagios 
plugins package installed on each remote server, but NRPE takes care of 
all the parsing output and returning the correct code to Nagios, as well 
as using the standard plugins so if you have another monitoring 
requirement in the future (e.g. RAID status or something) you just have 
to install another plugin - minimal effort!

Thanks,
Andy

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