monitoring hosts using ssh - can you change default account?

[paulconca]

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Same question

All the server we need to monitor already have an account and keys (not Nagios).

Is it possible use a different account on the Nagios Monitoring server to SSH to the client servers?

Thank you

[dwhitfield]

Yep:

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./check_by_ssh --help
check_by_ssh v2.2.1 (nagios-plugins 2.2.1)

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 -l, --logname=USERNAME
    SSH user name on remote host [optional]

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[paulconca]

Thank you

I am presuming you need a private key for the non-Nagios account?

If yes, where do you put that key?

Regards

[dwhitfield]

You'll just need to follow https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ng_SSH.pdf but use a different account than nagios.