Difficiles Nugae Labs

In some cases, if You need to monitor some remote host resource without SNMP or any other simplest way, maybe You need to write a shell nagios plugin calling an expect script. A quite strange way, I admit.

Well, You can write something like that:

MYRESULT=$(/usr/bin/expect – << EOF
set timeout -1

spawn ssh $MYUSERNAME@$MYHOSTNAME
expect {
ssword: {
send “$MYPASSWORD\r”
}
}
expect {
bash-prompt {
send “$MYCOMMAND\r”
}
}
expect {
bash-prompt {
send “exit\r”
}
}
EOF)