Remote external commands

[Frank J. Gómez]

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I started thinking about this too and
remembered seeing it come across the list, so I dug it up.

Mark, did you ever find a solution to your problem?  Have you tried using
check_by_ssh (http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_by_ssh)?  I haven't looked
at it in depth, but it looks like you can use it to call any command on the
remote server... so if, for example, you wanted to turn off service
notifications for a host remotely, I think you could do something like this
from your central monitoring server:

define command {
     command_name    silence_host
     command_line       $USER1$/check_by_ssh -H $ARG1$ -C 'printf "[%lu]
DISABLE_HOST_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS;$ARG2$\n" `date +%s`' >
/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
}

... where $ARG1$ is the IP address of the distributed monitoring server for
the cluster in which the host resides, and $ARG2$ is the host_name of the
server you want to silence.

I haven't tried or tested this, but I guess this is where I would start.
What do you think?  Did you find another way?

-Frank


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Mark Clarkson <mark.clarkson at smorg.co.uk>
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> > I'm going to try ncmd from NagiosExchange.org. Thanks!
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> ncmd is not the right. The only thing I can see is NSCAFE but
> I'm a bit wary of using Java, or rather of creating another dependency.
> I guess I'll have to use ssh.
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> Does anyone know of a tool to run external commands from a remote
> computer? Something like NSCAFE but not written in Java?
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