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Werk #4440: check_sftp: New Check for SFTP Connections

Component Checks & agents
Title check_sftp: New Check for SFTP Connections
Date May 30, 2017
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.5.0i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

With this new active check you are able to verify successful logins and optionally a timestamp of a file or operability of getting/putting a file.

This plugin needs the python libary paramiko and is therefore not out of the box compatible with older releases of Check_MK.

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