Technical details¶

This article describes how Centreon SSH Connector allow much gain on SSH check execution.

One major CPU-intensive and long operation in a SSH environment is the key exchange and verification mechanism. This operation occurs when a SSH session is started between two hosts. After this step all exchange operations are using far less resources.

Centreon SSH Connector take advantage of this fact and maintain semi-permanent connection with hosts to which it had to connect to. This way if multiple checks are performed on the same host, where “check_by_ssh” opens one session for each check, Centreon Connector SSH only opens one session. However this does not limit the number of concurrent checks on a host, as the SSH protocol allows multiple channels to be opened on the same session. Therefore if multiple checks are run on the same host simultaneously, they are executed concurrently but with separate execution environment.