check program with remote ssh and options

Gerrit Kühn <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Oct 2025 10:21:45 +0200
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Hello,

I need monit to execute and check the result of a script on a remote host
via ssh. What works for me right now is something like this:

check program mycheck with path "/usr/bin/ssh [email protected]
'/home/myuser/myscripts/mycheck.sh -a 4.5 myserver'"

However, now I need to add another option for the script: -T.
Unfortunately, this requires multiple strings separated by space. On the
commandline this would be something like
/usr/bin/ssh [email protected] '/home/myuser/myscripts/arc_check.sh -T "opta
optb" -a 4.5 myserver'

However, I cannot figure out how to the the additional quotes around "opta
optb" into the monit config line. Everything I tried so far fails either
parsing on the monit side, or on the remote shell side, or simply does
create the intended commandline on the remote side?

Is there a solution for this? I know the recommended solution would
probably be to come up with a custom script for monit to call. However, I
need this kind of test very often with varying options, and setting up a
separate script for each test is not really a good solution, either.


cu
  Gerrit

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