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Posted: **Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:55 am**

I'm a long time Nagios fan, like 15 years. In one of my environments, I have Nagios and NRPE running on several Linux hosts and everything has been working as expected for several months. I recently added 3 Linux 8 (Rocky) hosts into the environment... All 3 are identically configured, with NRPE installed, and the Nagios server is monitoring 8 of 9 services on all 3 hosts without issue.

But check_ssh is not working on 2 of the 3 hosts. From the Nagios server:

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[root@nagios ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.0.71 -c check_ssh
SSH OK - OpenSSH_8.0 (protocol 2.0) | time=0.011923s;;;0.000000;10.000000

[root@nagios ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.0.72 -c check_ssh
connect to address 192.168.0.69 and port 22: Permission denied

[root@nagios ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.0.73 -c check_ssh
connect to address 192.168.0.69 and port 22: Permission denied

The config on all 3 hosts is the same... same firewalld settings, nrpe.cfg, etc. For the life of me, I can't figure out what's wrong... check_disk, check_load, check_mem, check_procs, check_swap, check_uptime and check_users are all working as expected on all 3 hosts, but check_ssh is only working on 1 of the 3.

Suggestions?

Posted: **Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:47 am**

Adding to this, I am able to run check_ssh as root and as the nrpe user on the 2 "bad" hosts:

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[root@192.168.0.72 ~]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ssh -H 192.168.0.69
SSH OK - OpenSSH_8.0 (protocol 2.0) | time=0.011192s;;;0.000000;10.000000
[root@192.168.0.72 ~]# runuser -u nrpe -- /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ssh -H 192.168.0.69
SSH OK - OpenSSH_8.0 (protocol 2.0) | time=0.010463s;;;0.000000;10.000000

[root@192.168.0.73 ~]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ssh -H 192.168.0.69
SSH OK - OpenSSH_8.0 (protocol 2.0) | time=0.010107s;;;0.000000;10.000000
[root@192.168.0.73 ~]# runuser -u nrpe -- /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ssh -H 192.168.0.69
SSH OK - OpenSSH_8.0 (protocol 2.0) | time=0.010427s;;;0.000000;10.000000

And there are no problems running ssh between the hosts and nagios (or to any other host in the environment).

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