<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Thanks for your help with this. I commented out the sshd.conf section calling for a banner & resent the following successfully: /usr/local/nagios/libexec> ./check_by_ssh -H 10.X.XXX.XXX -C '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 5.0 -c 10.0' OK - load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.16|load1=0.120;5.000;10.000;0; load5=0.150;5.000;10.000;0; load15=0.160;5.000;10.000;0; Edited the nagios cfg files & looks good now. I cannot run my clients without the banner , due to SOX & PCI compliance. So, what I was able to do is run the check_by_ssh plugin with the -q option and after putting the banner piece back in, the check works perfect. ./check_by_ssh -H 10.xxx.xxx.xxx -C '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 5.0 -c 10.0' -q OK - load average: 0.55, 0.33, 0.22|load1=0.550;5.000;10.000;0; load5=0.330;5.000;10.000;0; load15=0.220;5.000;10.000;0; Again, thanks for your involvement getting this resolved, Rod & Benny. Hopefully it helps someone else down the road. Regards, Steve > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:57:49 -0700 > From: raanders@cyber-office.net > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Going Nuts trying to get check_by_ssh to work > > On 07/13/2010 04:03 PM, C. Bensend wrote: > > > >> If I remember, that line is in the sshd.config for the auth users banner. > >> I should be able to comment it out to test it. > >> > >> Didn't think about that... I'll dial in when I get home& try it.. > > > > If you're running a recent release of OpenSSH, you might be able > > to use a match directive to skip the banner for connections > > originating with your Nagios server... Off the top of my head, > > I don't recall if that is one of the options you can override > > with match. > > The simplest way I've found to avoid the banner is to do it like this. > > ssh root@host.example.com 'cat /etc/rsyslog.conf' > > > \\||/ > Rod > -- > > > > Please let us know what happens! > > > > Benny > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > 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 <hr />The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4' target='_new'>Get busy.</a></body> </html>