NRPE vs. check_by_ssh vs. nagios_statd

[Nelson, Ben]

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of using ssh in the first place??
 
--Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Scibetti [mailto:russell at quadrix.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:12 AM
To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
Cc: 'Marian Zurek'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh vs. nagios_statd


I made an addition to the check_by_ssh code to allow for another argument:

-c <cipher-name>

that you can use to change what type of encryption to use.  I did this
because we planned on trying to use "-c none" to see if it reduced some of
the ssh-induced load.  We haven't actually tested its effects yet (we need
to rebuild ssh to allow "-c none" first).  Does anyone know if this would
make a big difference in ssh's scalability?  If so, should I contribute this
back?

Russell Scibetti

Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: 


 
- check_by_ssh -- great for punching through firewalls where port 22 is
already open (saves you having to punch more holes); doesn't scale well,
because of the crypto computations
 


-- 

Russell Scibetti

Quadrix Solutions, Inc.

http://www.quadrix.com <http://www.quadrix.com> 

(732) 235-2335, ext. 7038


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