check_by_ssh not working

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Nelson Serafica wrote:

> 	Here's the scenario:
>
> user John can connect via ssh to SONICSERVER using oracle user without authentication. To verify, i run this command and encountered no problem:
>
> ssh -i /home/John/.ssh/id_rsa oracle at SONICSERVER w
>
> and the commands run properly.
>
> But when i tried this command:
>
> [John at SONICSERVER ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H SONICSERVER -i /home/John/.ssh/id_rsa \
>  -C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10% -c 5% -e -m" -l oracle
>
> It says:
>
> CRITICAL - Plugin timed out while executing system call

My estimate would be that your nagios user can not read the identity file
from John. So either copy or move it to some place where user nagios can
read it.

Hugo.

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