well u can use push_check_ssh plugin to take the local plugins to remote machine and execute but ofcourse the nagios server machine and the client machine should ahve the same OS installed. Thanks Vivek On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 Drew Kollasch wrote : >How about /usr/nagios/libexec/check_ssh? >Its included with the standard nagios plugins. I use it on over 20 >machines, and it works great. > > >------------------------------------------------------- >Drew Kollasch >Network/Desktop Technician >kollasch.drew@bvrmc.org >712-213-8668 > >Buena Vista Regional Medical Center >1525 W 5th St >Storm Lake, IA 50588 > > >-----Original Message----- > From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net >[mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Guillermo >Padilla >Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:47 AM >To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [Nagios-users] check ssh plugin > > >Hi, > >Is there a good check_ssh script to check if a remote server is actually >responding to ssh? I've been seeing a few of my servers respond to >pings but not ssh and when in fact you try to access the server via >console the server had a bunch of i/o errors. But the server was still >responding to pings. I need a plugin that will tell me if the server is >really up other than just responding to pings. I would like to use ssh >as a means to verify if the server is really up. > >I've checked the check_by_ssh plugin which I'm not to crazy about using. > >Are there any others? > >Thanks >-guillermo > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid >reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when >reporting any issue. >::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > >------------------------------------------------------- >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide >Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&opick >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. >::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null <A target="_blank" HREF="http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp"><IMG SRC="http://ads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.cgi/www.rediffmail.com/inbox.htm@Bottom" BORDER=0 VSPACE=0 HSPACE=0></a>