[TriLUG] Couple of Nagios questions

[Brian McCullough]

Folks,

As usual, I am drawing on the immense body of knowledge known as TriLUG.

I am working on setting up monitoring of some of my local machines ( and VMs ) with Nagios, and seem to be learning how to do it, except for a couple of issues.

The "host" machine is Ubuntu 10.10, nagios3.

When I try and do the Disk Check, it complains that /home/user/.gvfs is inaccessable, which is not unexpected, so I tried to do a custom check_disk command ( or the parameters to it ) and said "-A -I /home/user/.gvfs", but it still complains that the directory can not be accessed.

How do I get it to ignore this problem?


Secondly, I have the "remote" machines, where I am also trying to do disk checks.  I don't think that the standard disk check routine works on remote machines, so I tried setting up the SSH version, but it doesn't seem to work either.
What user does Ubuntu Nagios use for these SSH sessions?  I tried setting up the key files, and the user "nagios" can log in to each of the remote machines from the "host" successfully, but the Disk Checks are all failing.
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Thank you,
Brian