Remote monitoring

[Michael Medin]

I did not mean to add ssh client to nsclient++ but I could write a plugin
that runs plink when nsclient++ starts and makes sure plink is running,
but maybe NSCA is probably a better solution (which nsclient++ already has
:)

// MickeM

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:36:32 +0100, Michael Medin <michael at medin.name>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Humm, this was quite interesting, is there a way to (from the plink) to
>> detect the status of the connection or does plink "die" when the
>> connection dies even?
>> Would be quite simple to add a "plugin" to run this from within
>> nsclient++, but for it to be useful you would need to be able to detect
>> the status of the link (and I have never used the command myself).
>
> Hi,
>
> Well, I once wrote a script that basically runs 'cat' command and uses it
> to "ping" the server - it writes some garbage every few minutes and checks
> if it gets back.
>
> I'll play with doing it as a service on Windows and if this is trivial
> enough, I'll make it opensource.
>
> I don't think that putting ssh client in NSClient as a plugin is a good
> way, though. I'm wondering if it can't report directly to NCSA as a long
> term solution?
>
> --
> Wojciech Kocjan
>
>



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