<html> <head> </head> <body> For what its worth, the default check_by_ssh plugin already allows multiple checks to be performed in one ssh command and then dumps the results into the command pipe to be processed passively. Russell Scibetti Steven Grimm wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:20030203162818.C17473@cadge.midwinter.com"> <pre wrap="">If you want to check multiple services on remote hosts using ssh, you might want to look at my batch_by_ssh script, which will check all of a remote host's services with one ssh command (rather than one ssh per remote service) which should reduce your scaling woes. It's still not as cheap as NRPE, but especially if you have several services per host on a ton of remote hosts, it'll cut way down on ssh overhead. It also lets you centrally manage the commands that are run on remote hosts, rather than doing it on config files on those hosts as with NRPE; whether that's a plus or a drawback is a matter of taste. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/nagios/batch_by_ssh">http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/nagios/batch_by_ssh</a> There's extensive documentation (by Nagios plugin standards, anyway) at the top of the script. If you use it you'll want to make sure you've applied the followin g check_by_ssh buffer overflow patch: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=673863&group_id=29880&atid=397599">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=673863&group_id=29880&atid=397599</a> -Steve On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 09:29:22AM +0100, Marian Zurek wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi, Thanks for you reply. As the first approach I applied the 'check_by_ssh' solution for couple of machines. I have here around 100 PC and plan to perform two remote checks on each of them. Could you tell me at which point I might hit the wall/scalability problem ? My future plans will be most probably SNMP based, but I am a bit hesitant if it is really needed with this number of host/services ?? Thnaks in advance for your comments. Regards, Marian </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vasoftware.com">http://www.vasoftware.com</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="$mailwrapcol">-- Russell Scibetti Quadrix Solutions, Inc. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.quadrix.com">http://www.quadrix.com</a> (732) 235-2335, ext. 7038 </pre> </body> </html>