Re: [Nagios-users] Remote host check methods

2006-04-16 Thread Randall Perry
Thanks to everyone for their replies. I couldn't reply sooner because my posts were being refused by the list for some reason -- had to sign up with a different email address. stucky wrote: I can only agree. I do all my checking with ssh and it works wonderfully. Every monitored machine has

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote host check methods

2006-03-30 Thread stucky
I can only agree. I do all my checking with ssh and it works wonderfully. Every monitored machine has a 'nagios' user that is used to log on to it via an ssh key where only the nagios box has the privkey to. In the pubkey I use the 'command' directive to force a sanity check on every command that i

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote host check methods

2006-03-30 Thread Patrick Morris
check_by_ssh is great, but when you're monitoring thousands of hosts/services, the overhead can kill you. NRPE's great in those situations, because it's so lightweight. On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Bill Jacqmein wrote: > Im a bigger fan of check by ssh for unix like OSes. > > On 3/29/06, Randall Perry

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote host check methods

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Jacqmein
Im a bigger fan of check by ssh for unix like OSes. On 3/29/06, Randall Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got it running, but am having trouble with SSL, which I'll detail in a > separate post. > > > > Randall Perry wrote: > > I'm new to Nagios. Got it configured and running on my monitoring box.

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote host check methods

2006-03-29 Thread Randall Perry
Got it running, but am having trouble with SSL, which I'll detail in a separate post. Randall Perry wrote: I'm new to Nagios. Got it configured and running on my monitoring box. Tried installing NRPE on a remote host running Mac OSX but couldn't get it to run as daemon or through xinetd. The

[Nagios-users] Remote host check methods

2006-03-28 Thread Randall Perry
I'm new to Nagios. Got it configured and running on my monitoring box. Tried installing NRPE on a remote host running Mac OSX but couldn't get it to run as daemon or through xinetd. There seem to be several methods to check remote hosts including SSH plugins. Just wondering what other's method o