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VladT
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Feb 27, 2023

External monitor for SFTP

Hello F5 Community,

I am trying to set up an external monitor for SFTP and i need some help to make it work.
For authentication i specified the path for the private key.
I am trying to run the sftp with -b option and specifing the path for the command i want to run after authentication.
In the cmd file i added the version command.

May I ask you to have a look and advise what i am missing here in order to make it work?


#!/bin/sh
# these arguments supplied automatically for all external pingers:
# $1 = IP (::ffff:nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn notation or hostname)
# $2 = port (decimal, host byte order)
# $3 and higher = additional arguments
#
# $MONITOR_NAME = name of the monitor

 


# Remove the IPv6/IPv4 compatibility prefix
IP=`echo $1 | sed 's/::ffff://'`

 

user="TF5M5412"


# Name of the pidfile
pidfile="/var/run/$MONITOR_NAME.$1..$2.pid"


# Send signal to the process group to kill our former self and any children
# as external monitors are run with SIGHUP blocked
if [ -f $pidfile ]
then
kill -9 -`cat $pidfile` > /dev/null 2>&1
fi

echo "$$" > $pidfile


output=$(sftp -i /config/filestore/files_d/Common_d/certificate_key_d/:Common:SFTP-TEST-unprotected_66821_1 -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -b /config/filestore/files_d/Common_d/certificate_key_d/cmd $user@$IP)


if echo "$output" | grep -q "version 3"; then
echo "UP"
fi

rm -f "${pidfile}"




  • Can you run this command manually and share the output?

  • VladT's avatar
    VladT
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    Helllo,
    Found the issue.
    When trying to run the script manually, noticed this error : bad interpreter: No such file or directory
    Used this command < sed -i -e 's/\r$//'>  to remove the DOS line endings from Text files and the external monitor is working now

    Thank you very much
    Wish you a nice day