Nagios and ssh

[infiniphunk]

hi gang!
I'm doing some stuff with Nagios here and it's running on a server that has web, ftp, mail and ssh service running on it. I also just put nagios on and it seems to be working correctly. However, its constantly reporting an issue with ssh, saying critical status and 'connection refused' for status information.
I have a feeling that this is basically because my sshd_config file is pretty tweaked.
Problem is that i'm not sure 100% if this is the problem and if it is what nagios file do I have to change?

system is Debian Lenny 2.6.26-2-686 Nagios Core version 3.2.2 installed from source.

[trilarian]

From Nagios Troubleshooting:

Where 192.168.2.51 is the name of IP address of the remote machine we want to monitor. If no SSH server is set up on the remote host, the plugin will return Connection refused status, and if it failed to connect, the result will state No route to host.

So if that is true, Nagios can detect the difference between a failed connect and a refused connect.

Maybe post your sshd, also your iptables if you use them (or whatever firewall rules). My assumption would be you are seeing the refused attempts from either a firewall rule table or /etc/hosts.deny.

[infiniphunk]

sorry to bother you duudez i found the answer..
edited

/usr/local/nagios/etc//objects/localhost/cfg to detail:

define service{
use local-service ; Name of service template to use
host_name localhost
service_description SSH
check_command check_ssh! -p 'mine ip address'
notifications_enabled 0
}

now all is groovy.
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