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Hello,

We have an SSH check that runs a remote script checking the license count for an application. When running the check via the actual service monitor, I get this result (I've changed IP information below):

[nagios@nagiosxi ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H [IP HERE] -C "~/check_ud.sh"
Remote command execution failed: Permission denied, please try again.

If I log into the server itself, and su - nagios from the root, running the same command, I get the expected output:
[nagios@nagiosxi ~]$ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H [IP HERE] -C "~/check_ud.sh"
Password:
OK - 341 is 71% of 478 Unidata Licenses used.|unidata=71%;90;95

It seems like the keypair/fingerprint is not present, but I've added that both via the IP and the hostname to known_hosts. I've also created a keypair on the nagios server itself and added the public key to the monitoring endpoint server.

What am I missing?

Thanks!

Hello aylesworth,

Please check the permissions and ownership on your "~/check_ud.sh" script. should be:
and Thanks,
Perry

Hi Perry,

Thanks for the suggestion, not sure what happened but re-issuing the keypair and re-adding that to the host fixed the issue.

This can be closed!

Have you tried to ssh to the remote host as nagios from the nagios host? If it prompts for a password, something in the ssh setup probably needs fixed.