[Nagios-users] Nagios Checks and Redhat Logwatch

[Chris S. <chr...@da...>]

Hi all quick questions;

I have been using Nagios for a while now and it's doing a great job, the 
only issue, and it's really just a minor annoyance is that when I use 
check_ssh on my servers it causes a ton of the following to be thrown to 
my logs, which then show up the next day in logwatch

Connection from A.B.C.D port 53213
Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
Connection from A.B.C.D port 53346
Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
Connection from A.B.C.D port 53479
Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
Connection from A.B.C.D port 53609

as I said not a problem, but a pain in the butt none the less, with each 
active check throwing this into the daily logwatch it's really polluting 
the data, and I worry will cause a situation where legitimate 
information will be missed by human eye's that are so used to just 
skipping the SSHD section of the logwatch due to the pages and pages of 
the above.

Has anyone got a solution to this? or do all the Nagios RH users out 
there just live with the problem??  if anyone has a patch for the SSHD 
Logwatch code that can tell it to ignore an IP (Basically get it to 
ignore the Nagios IP and not report any of the connections from it) I 
would appreciate it, or any other useful shove in the right direction 
towards fixing this.


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Chris Stankaitis