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Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 6:55 am**

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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

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:48 pm**

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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Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:34 am**

Thank you

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

If yes, where do you put that key?

Regards

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 10:43 am**

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

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