ssh-copy-id ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub nagios@remoteip error hostname

[ikekim]

I have Nagios XI installed (Virtual Box & import image)and want to monitor remote Redhat 7.x machine using SSH. Installing the agent is likely not allowed in our environment.

This is from Nagios instruction from page 3: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ng_SSH.pdf

For the called check_by_ssh to work you must now copy the public key file of the nagios user on the Nagios XI server to the
authorized_keys file for the nagios user on the remote Linux/Unix server. Continuing with the terminal session from the previous
step execute the following command:

ssh-copy-id ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub nagios@remoteip

So when I use this command, using the remote ip address, but I get an error message "ssh: could not resolve hostname /home/nagios/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: Name or service not known."

However, I can ssh to this target host using the ip address from Nagios XI server and successfully logon using the user account "nagios".

What is causing this error?


thanks.

[bolson]

Execute the command like this:

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ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub nagios@remoteip

Let us know if this resolves your issue,

[ikekim]

Thanks that worked great.
But why not have your command in the document?

ik

[bolson]

I've sent the issue to our documentation team.

May we close this topic?

[ikekim]

Yes, please close.

many thanks!

ik

[bolson]

Closing this topic as resolved.

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