On Monday 24 October 2016 at 08:22:39, Stephan Tesch wrote:
> Am 24.10.2016 um 01:05 schrieb Antony Stone:
> >
> >> I say "almost" because it's SSH, but it's not on port 22.
> >>
> >> I've found section 7.2 of
> >> http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/agent-b
> >> ase d- checks-addon and I've learned a bit more from
> >> https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Using+SSH+as+remote+client+for+Ic
> >> ing a2 and I've also found from "check_by_ssh --help" that this plugin
> >> accepts a -p parameter to specify the port number to connect to.
> >>
> >> However, I can't work out how to pass this parameter to check_by_ssh
> >> based on the above examples.
> >
> > Oh, I forgot to add - I can't even work out what "import by_ssh" is
> > importing - just in case that might give me a clue as to how to pass the
> > -p parameter. Where is "by_ssh" imported from?
>
> you don't supply the parameters directly (as it has been with Nagios).
> Instead, at least for the predefined check commands, you simply defines
> variables within your host or service definition. An example:
>
> object Service "my service" {
> import "by_ssh"
> vars.by_ssh_port = "2022"
> vars.by_ssh_command = "cat /etc/passwd"
> }
>
> You should have a look at the fantastic documentation for all supported
> options (variables):
>
> http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/toc#!/icinga2/late
> st/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/plugin-check-commands#plugin-check-command-by
> -ssh
Excellent! Thanks :)
I wish that had been referenced in section 7.2...
Antony.
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