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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Agent Builder User's Guide > Monitor output from a script IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3
Collect script data from a remote system
To collect script or program data from a remote system, Agent Builder uses a Secure Shell (SSH)
To collect data from a remote system, Agent Builder creates a Secure Shell (SSH) session and starts the script or external program on the remote system. The agent establishes and logs on to an SSH session. The agent then uploads the scripts to the remote system, starts the script or external program, and retrieves the output. The agent can be configured to keep the session open or reestablish the session for each invocation. If the session is kept open, the script can be reused or uploaded for each invocation. By default, a single SSH session is used and the scripts are reused for each invocation.
Agent Builder supports use of only SSH Protocol Version 2 with Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman (RSA) or Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) keys. The agent is either authenticated by user name and password, or by public key authentication. The generation and distribution of the public keys is an administrative task that must be done outside of the agent and Agent Builder.
To run a Take Action command that is written against a Secure Shell (SSH) enabled script data provider on the remote system, see SSHEXEC action.
Restriction: If your agent was built with an Agent Builder version before 6.3 and it has a script data provider that uses SSH, the provider fails when run with IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.3 or later. For more information about the failure, see the problem titled Script data providers that use SSH are failing in Troubleshooting: Agents.
The restriction is because IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.3 uses a newer version of the Global Secure ToolKit (GSKit) API. You must rebuild the agent with Agent Builder 6.3 or later to run it with IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.3 or later. If you build the agent with Agent Builder 6.3, it can also run with earlier versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
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Monitor output from a script