Description of problem:

Satellite-5.3.0-RHEL5-re20090403.2-i386-embedded-oracle.iso


Server:
1. Login as Sat admin
1.1  switch SELinux to permissive
1.2 turn off iptables on client
2. Enable Monitoring,  under Admin -> Spacewalk/RHN Configuration, check Enable Monitoring, click Update
3. Enable Monitoring Scout, under Admin -> Spacewalk/RHN Configuration -> Monitoring, check Enable Monitoring Scout, click Update Config
4. Restart Spacewalk/RHN Satellite
5. Make sure /etc/init.d/Monitoring is started
6. From the server, su - nocpulse, scp the .ssh/nocpulse-identity.pub root@client:/tmp 
7. This same key can also be found at Monitoring -> Scout Config Push -> RHN Monitoring Satellite

Client:
5. Register a client, enable monitoring on the client
6. Alter system channel membership to include RHN Network Tools
7. Install rhnmd package on client and do service rhnmd start.
8.1 (SAT 5.3 CHANGE) On the client, su - nocpulse, cat /tmp/nocpulse-identity.pub >> /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh/authorized_keys
9. restart the rhnmd, /etc/init.d/rhnmd restart 


10.Create Probes
11. Push scout config, (success)

get error: on probes:

The RHN Monitoring Daemon (RHNMD) is not responding: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). Please make sure the daemon is running and the host is accessible from the monitoring scout. Command was: /usr/bin/ssh -l nocpulse -p 4545 -i /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh/nocpulse-identity -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o BatchMode=yes 10.10.76.139 /bin/sh -s


try manually w/ verbose

-bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/ssh -v -l nocpulse -p 4545 -i /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh/nocpulse-identity -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o BatchMode=yes 10.10.76.139 /bin/sh -s
OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1: Applying options for *
debug1: Connecting to 10.10.76.139 [10.10.76.139] port 4545.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh/nocpulse-identity type 2
debug1: loaded 1 keys
debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_3.9p1
debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.9p1 pat OpenSSH_3.*
debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_4.3
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
debug1: Host '10.10.76.139' is known and matches the DSA host key.
debug1: Found key in /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh/known_hosts:1
debug1: ssh_dss_verify: signature correct
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
debug1: Offering public key: /var/lib/nocpulse/.ssh/nocpulse-identity
debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,keyboard-interactive
debug1: No more authentication methods to try.
Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).
-bash-3.2$ whoami
nocpulse
-bash-3.2$ 


The ping probe is working, the rest do not.