launching ssh session via action_url (or other mechanism)

[Eric Pearce]

Good tip.
I also found a useful utility on the MSDN link, 
http://www.codeplex.com/customurl
I used CustomURL to set up both "ssh://" and "rdp://"  (remote desktop) 
protocols for broswers and I have verified that it works for both IE and 
Firefox.
This enables me to do the following:

     action_url      ssh://linuxserver

and

    action_url        rdp://windowserver

Now I can click on the "Extra Host Action" icon without knowing the 
connection method in advance.
Thanks again
-e

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Shellam" <andy-lists at networkmail.eu>
To: "Eric Pearce" <epearce at amberpoint.com>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] launching ssh session via action_url (or other 
mechanism)


> Hi Eric,
>
> I'm not sure if PuTTY or other SSH clients support the ssh:// URL handler 
> directly, but if not you can add it yourself.  See the MSDN documentation 
> at the URL below.  You could add a protocol handler for the "ssh://" 
> protocol, then if you put "ssh://192.168.0.1" as your URL in Nagios, the 
> client PC will launch the application you put in the registry and pass it 
> "192.168.0.1" as the "%1" argument.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914.aspx
>
> E.g. your "shell open command" for PuTTY would be something like: 
> "C:\|putty.exe" -ssh "%1"|
>
> I've done a similar thing with an application I manage at work and it was 
> really easy.  The only downside is the registry has to be updated on every 
> PC, but you could export the registry key as a .reg file and pass it 
> around to those who need it.
>
> I believe it's a system-wide thing, so it should work in Firefox as well, 
> but don't quote me on it.
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>
> Eric Pearce wrote:
>> I'd like to be able click on the link presented by action_url in the 
>> Nagios display or $HOSTACTIONURL$ in a notfication email and have it open 
>> a SSH session to the host in question.
>> I found several people saying this is possible in the mailing list 
>> archives, but I don't see any detailed examples or instructions.   I'm 
>> not a java programmer.
>> I don't think the IE-specific telnet:// registry hack is good enough - I 
>> want to be able to use Firefox as well.
>> I'm running nagios 3.0.6 and 1.4.13 plugins
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>> -e
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