SSHCommand probe

A probe using the ECC queue topic name SSHCommand executes a shell command on the target host, and returns the resulting output to the sensor.

Discovery supports Bourne Shell (sh) and Bourne-again Shell (bash) commands. Enter shell script commands in the probe's ECC queue name field. The shell script can use variables and file operations supported by the target UNIX shell.

• The SSH engine is active by default on new instances.
• Customers on upgraded instances can manually enable ServiceNow SSH for a particular probe by setting the use_snc_ssh parameter to true. Alternatively, enable it for all probes on the MID Server by setting the MID Server parameter mid.ssh.use_snc to true.

Note: To discover network devices, such as routers and switches, use SNMP credentials credentials, not SSH credentials.

• SSHCommand parameters
  Several parameters are available for the SSHCommand probe.
• SSHCommand path
  The SSHCommand probe computes the default path from the following sources.
• Shell script options
  The SSHCommand probe supports the following scripting options in the ECC queue name field.
• Non-privileged SSH commands during probe-based discovery
  These tables display the SSH commands run by Discovery probes on target devices during horizontal discovery. These SSH commands don’t require elevated privileges to run.
• SSH commands requiring a privileged user during probe-based discovery
  These tables display the SSH commands run by Discovery probes during horizontal discovery. These SSH commands require elevated privileges to run.

Parent Topic:List of Discovery probes