Remote host check methods

[Randall Perry]

Thanks to everyone for their replies.

I couldn't reply sooner because my posts were being refused by the list 
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stucky wrote:
> I can only agree. I do all my checking with ssh and it works 
> wonderfully. Every monitored machine has a 'nagios' user that is used 
> to log on to it via an ssh key where only the nagios box has the 
> privkey to. In the pubkey I use the 'command' directive to force a 
> sanity check on every command that is passed via ssh. This command 
> compares what's in the SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND environment variable to a 
> list of allowed commands.  If it passes it get executed, otherwise 
> nagios errors. It's a simple perl script I wrote.
> So the authorized_keys file on all hosts for user 'nagios' looks like 
> that:
>
> from="{nagioshost}",command="/usr/local/nagios/home/acl_agent",no-port-forwarding,no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding 
> ssh-dss..key stuff
>
> This way the key can only be used from the nagios box for exactly the 
> commands that the plugins need to run. acl_agent is the perl script 
> and the acl's themselves are maintained via cfengine.
>
> On 3/30/06, *Bill Jacqmein* <wrjacqmein at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wrjacqmein at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Im a bigger fan of check by ssh for unix like OSes.
>
>     On 3/29/06, Randall Perry < listsub at systame.com
>     <mailto:listsub at systame.com>> wrote:
>     > Got it running, but am having trouble with SSL, which I'll
>     detail in a
>     > separate post.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Randall Perry wrote:
>     > > I'm new to Nagios. Got it configured and running on my
>     monitoring box.
>     > > Tried installing NRPE on a remote host running Mac OSX but
>     couldn't get
>     > > it to run as daemon or through xinetd.
>     > >
>     > > There seem to be several methods to check remote hosts
>     including SSH
>     > > plugins.
>     > >
>     > > Just wondering what other's method of choice is for this --
>     especially
>     > > on OSXS.
>     > >
>     > > TIA
>     > >
>     >
>     >
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