check_by_ssh always returning OK

Blair Rampling brampling at methanex.com
Fri Dec 20 19:51:57 CET 2002


I have a number of things monitored by check_by_ssh. Even when the remote plugin exits with an error code other than 0, nagios shows OK leading me to believe that check_by_ssh is returning error code 0 regardless. I am using 1.3 beta 1 of the plugins and nagios 1.0b6. Why is this happening and how do I fix it? Thanks.

Here are two examples of checks that are returning OK when they shouldn't. Note that if I omit the -f the checks will always return UNKNOWN:

# 'check_remote_mem' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_remote_mem
        command_line    $USER1$/check_by_ssh -f -l sysadmin -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C "~/plugins/check_mem.pl -u -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$"
        }

# 'check_remote_ps_proc' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_remote_ps_proc
        command_line    $USER1$/check_by_ssh -f -l sysadmin -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C "~/plugins/check_psproc.pl $ARG1$ $ARG2$"
        }

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Blair Rampling



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