[Nagiosplug-help] check_by_ssh issue

[Holger Weiss]

* Robert Cole <robert.cole at support4linux.com> [2007-06-15 11:17]:
> I'm not sure if I found a bug or what but I can login to the remote 
> system I'm trying to check with key based authentication I can even do a 
> "ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa remotecomputer "/usr/nagios/plugins/check_swap -w 
> 50% -c 10%" and it works just fine but when I use:
> 
> nagios at ms1 ~ $ /usr/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H remotecomputer -i 
> ~/.ssh/id_dsa -C "/usr/nagios/plugins/check_swap -w 50% -c 10%"
> Enter passphrase for key '/home/nagios/.ssh/id_dsa':

1) Please don't post the same question to two different mailing lists.
2) Always use this list for plugin related questions.
3) Always mention which Nagios Plugins release you're using.

In your followup post to the Nagios list, you wrote:

| $ nagios at ms1 ~ $ /usr/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H remotecomputer -i -vvvv ~/.ssh/id_dsa -C "/usr/nagios/plugins/check_swap -w 50% -c 10%"
| Enter passphrase for key '/home/nagios/.ssh/id_dsa':
| nagios at ocmp0's password:
|
| Didn't give me anymore output

If I call check_by_ssh with "-i -vvvv ~/.ssh/id_dsa" (and appropriate
host/command flags), I get the following error message:

| Remote command execution failed: Warning: Identity file -vvvv does not exist.

So, I'm pretty sure the command you quoted is not the exact command you
used.  Please always copy'n'paste any commands you tried and the output
you got.  If you use check_by_ssh's "-v" flag, the plugin should spit
out the actual ssh(1) command which it executes.  That is, please try
the command:

$ check_by_ssh -v -H remotecomputer -i $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa -C "/usr/nagios/plugins/check_swap -w 50% -c 10%"

If you copy'n'paste the exact command which is used by check_by_ssh and
try to execute it manually (as the same user who called check_by_ssh),
does it really work?

Holger

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