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authorGravatar Archie L. Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com> 2022-07-14 01:47:54 -0500
committerGravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com> 2022-07-14 08:47:54 +0200
commitccf4ed25f9c96e4d0cd647bbd8d91f38df75dfc0 (patch)
tree628738bdc24a81f22e0cde8a83f616973c0a25c9 /plugins
parent175e43133c9dbeb156e52b8e54cd04e44401f424 (diff)
downloadmonitoring-plugins-ccf4ed25f9c96e4d0cd647bbd8d91f38df75dfc0.tar.gz
check_by_ssh: Add "-U" flag (#1123). (#1774)
This causes a 255 exit value from ssh(1), which indicates a connection failure, to return UNKNOWN instead of CRITICAL; similar to check_nrpe's "-u" flag.
Diffstat (limited to 'plugins')
-rw-r--r--plugins/check_by_ssh.c18
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/plugins/check_by_ssh.c b/plugins/check_by_ssh.c
index 39d49070..1ad547ed 100644
--- a/plugins/check_by_ssh.c
+++ b/plugins/check_by_ssh.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ unsigned int services = 0;
int skip_stdout = 0;
int skip_stderr = 0;
int warn_on_stderr = 0;
+bool unknown_timeout = FALSE;
char *remotecmd = NULL;
char **commargv = NULL;
int commargc = 0;
@@ -101,6 +102,13 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
result = cmd_run_array (commargv, &chld_out, &chld_err, 0);
+ /* SSH returns 255 if connection attempt fails; include the first line of error output */
+ if (result == 255 && unknown_timeout) {
+ printf (_("SSH connection failed: %s\n"),
+ chld_err.lines > 0 ? chld_err.line[0] : "(no error output)");
+ return STATE_UNKNOWN;
+ }
+
if (verbose) {
for(i = 0; i < chld_out.lines; i++)
printf("stdout: %s\n", chld_out.line[i]);
@@ -180,6 +188,7 @@ process_arguments (int argc, char **argv)
{"verbose", no_argument, 0, 'v'},
{"fork", no_argument, 0, 'f'},
{"timeout", required_argument, 0, 't'},
+ {"unknown-timeout", no_argument, 0, 'U'},
{"host", required_argument, 0, 'H'}, /* backward compatibility */
{"hostname", required_argument, 0, 'H'},
{"port", required_argument,0,'p'},
@@ -212,7 +221,7 @@ process_arguments (int argc, char **argv)
strcpy (argv[c], "-t");
while (1) {
- c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "Vvh1246fqt:H:O:p:i:u:l:C:S::E::n:s:o:F:", longopts,
+ c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "Vvh1246fqt:UH:O:p:i:u:l:C:S::E::n:s:o:F:", longopts,
&option);
if (c == -1 || c == EOF)
@@ -234,6 +243,9 @@ process_arguments (int argc, char **argv)
else
timeout_interval = atoi (optarg);
break;
+ case 'U':
+ unknown_timeout = TRUE;
+ break;
case 'H': /* host */
hostname = optarg;
break;
@@ -445,6 +457,8 @@ print_help (void)
printf (" %s\n", _("Tell ssh to suppress warning and diagnostic messages [optional]"));
printf (UT_WARN_CRIT);
printf (UT_CONN_TIMEOUT, DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT);
+ printf (" %s\n","-U, --unknown-timeout");
+ printf (" %s\n", _("Make connection problems return UNKNOWN instead of CRITICAL"));
printf (UT_VERBOSE);
printf("\n");
printf (" %s\n", _("The most common mode of use is to refer to a local identity file with"));
@@ -474,7 +488,7 @@ void
print_usage (void)
{
printf ("%s\n", _("Usage:"));
- printf (" %s -H <host> -C <command> [-fqv] [-1|-2] [-4|-6]\n"
+ printf (" %s -H <host> -C <command> [-fqvU] [-1|-2] [-4|-6]\n"
" [-S [lines]] [-E [lines]] [-W] [-t timeout] [-i identity]\n"
" [-l user] [-n name] [-s servicelist] [-O outputfile]\n"
" [-p port] [-o ssh-option] [-F configfile]\n",