Plugin to simulate a user login?

[Steve Gilbert]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but my searches didn't turn up
anything.  Just hoping somebody can help me not have to reinvent the
wheel...

I need a plugin that will ssh and/or telnet to a Unix (Linux and
Solaris) host and performn an actual login.  Ie, it needs to log in with
an actual username and password and confirm that everything works okay.
This would confirm that logins, NIS, automounter, etc. are all working.

I'm having issues where machines will freeze up in various funky states,
but still respond to pings just fine.  Big Brother's telnet and ftp
checks detect most of these problems, but I'm trying really hard to
replace that with Nagios.

The only way I can think to do this is with an Expect script of some
sort.  Has anyone already written such a thing, or know of a better way
to solve this problem?  Thanks!

BTW...just using nrpe or check_by_ssh to, say confirm that ypbind is
running, won't please my management...they want something that actually
simulates what the user would do.  I'm not sure if that makes sense or
not, but it's my situation.

Steve Gilbert
Unix Systems Administrator
sgilbert at nvidia.com


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