Monitoring Hosts Using SSH

This document describes how to monitor hosts with Nagios XI by using SSH to execute monitoring plugins and scripts on remote machines. This document is intended for use by Nagios XI Administrators who want to setup custom monitoring of servers using SSH or who have existing hosts that are already being monitored using SSH.

Nagios XI 2024 & 2026

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Nagios XI 5.x (Legacy)

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