Irix monitoring/check_by_ssh

[Aaron Carr]

The agent will need to have the key loaded on the monitoring host in
order to have passwordless sessions for checks, will it not?

On 6/6/05, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Aaron Carr
> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 1:30 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Irix monitoring/check_by_ssh
> >
> > How is everyone doing their monitoring of Irix machines?
> >
> > I have no issues with getting Nagios set up for Linux and Solaris, but
> > Irix is presenting a problem.
> 
> Can't help here...
> 
> >
> > Regarding check by ssh, the ssh-agent isn't working with the Nagios
> > user.  I can only assume that's because the Nagios daemon doesn't have
> > a logon account on the monitoring box. After su from root to Nagios, I
> > start the ssh-agent, then when I attempt to add a key, I get the error
> > "Could not open a connection to your authentication agent."
> 
> Why are you trying to use the agent? Why not just generate a key as the
> nagios user on your source host and add it to authorized_keys for the
> destination user/host? Ssh over once to accept the host key then you
> should be good to go.
> 
> --
> Marc
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