> On 24 Oct 2016, at 10:18, Antony Stone <antony.st...@icinga.open.source.it> 
> wrote:
>
> On Monday 24 October 2016 at 08:22:39, Stephan Tesch wrote:
>
>> Am 24.10.2016 um 01:05 schrieb Antony Stone:
>>>
>>>> I say "almost" because it's SSH, but it's not on port 22.
>>>>
>>>> I've found section 7.2 of
>>>> http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/agent-b
>>>> ase d- checks-addon and I've learned a bit more from
>>>> https://wiki.icinga.org/display/howtos/Using+SSH+as+remote+client+for+Ic
>>>> ing a2 and I've also found from "check_by_ssh --help" that this plugin
>>>> accepts a -p parameter to specify the port number to connect to.
>>>>
>>>> However, I can't work out how to pass this parameter to check_by_ssh
>>>> based on the above examples.
>>>
>>> Oh, I forgot to add - I can't even work out what "import by_ssh" is
>>> importing - just in case that might give me a clue as to how to pass the
>>> -p parameter. Where is "by_ssh" imported from?
>>
>> you don't supply the parameters directly (as it has been with Nagios).
>> Instead, at least for the predefined check commands, you simply defines
>> variables within your host or service definition. An example:
>>
>> object Service "my service" {
>>  import "by_ssh"
>>  vars.by_ssh_port = "2022"
>>  vars.by_ssh_command = "cat /etc/passwd"
>> }
>>
>> You should have a look at the fantastic documentation for all supported
>> options (variables):
>>
>> http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/toc#!/icinga2/late
>> st/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/plugin-check-commands#plugin-check-command-by
>> -ssh
>
> Excellent!  Thanks :)
>
> I wish that had been referenced in section 7.2…

Send in a patch please.

https://www.icinga.org/community/get-involved/ w/ “Contribute to Icinga” should 
shed some light.

Kind regards,
Michael



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