Nagios: howto become a happy network and system monitoring engineer

Check linux nodes by executing remote scripts

Download nagios_ssh_framework.tar.gz
Place it in /tmp
# tar xvzf nagios_ssh_framework.tar.gz
# su – nagios
# ssh-keygen -t dsa
# exit
# cat /var/log/nagios/.ssh/id_dsa.pub > /tmp/nagios_ssh_framework/installation/install_src/.ssh/authorized_keys
# cd /tmp/nagios_ssh_framework/installation/
# ./install_nagios.sh aubisque.r71.nl

Import the license key from the remote server
# su – nagios
# ssh nagios@aubisque.r71.nl