Using SSH to run remote command checks

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Nagios Mail wrote:
> I wanted to update this problem as it appears to have never been 
> resolved. The current version of check_by_ssh still returns an 
> "UKNOWN" status in nagios. I have ran the command manually from the 
> command line and echoed $?, and while it does return 0, nagios is 
> putting in an UNKNOWN status. Not only that but the status appears to 
> be flapping.
>
> The Critical and Warning status appear to work every time, but when an 
> OK status is returned from one of the check programs (check_load, 
> check_disk, check_process), check_by_ssh returns an UNKNOWN almost 80% 
> of the time.
>
> I've followed up with three different people on this list who have 
> reported the problem, and all of them just decided to move to NRPE.
>
> Has anyone gotten this plugin to work? I am assuming this is a code 
> problem with check_by_ssh

I just get the following very helpful error message:

Remote command execution failed:  _______  _______ _________ _

Not even a reason why it failed, just a lot of underscores!

I preferred NRPE from the beginning anyway, so I've always used that.


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