xymon ssh scan

list Buchan Milne
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:32:14 +0100
Message-Id: <user-0d6817d67073@xymon.invalid>

On Friday, 11 June 2010 07:15:06 Andreas Kunberger wrote:

Why not use simply
 ssh %host% cat /etc/SuSE-release

Maybe just run a command that is likely to be present on almost any host 
running ssh.

For example, almost any unix should have 'uptime' or 'true'.

Then again, cisco devices don't have that, but they do have 'who'.