Verify if node is up in a Mesh setup

[rrossorr]

I just noticed that my node was down (2x86U) .. most likely for multiple days. I have icmp disabled and only allow login with ssh via pub/private key. I'm on a Mac and wanted to start monitoring via a Bash script thinking I could copy my public key to the node and perform a "ssh asusnode uptime". I copied my public key to the node via ssh-copy-id, verified it worked. I them disabled ssh via password and now can't ssh into the node (Permission denied (publickey)). I'm guessing that the Node doesn't keep a persistent copy of the key? I can enable icmp and just ping the node .. any other possibilities/ideas?

Thanks

 

[rrossorr]

In case anyone has a need .. the following snippet performs the check:

   curl -s --max-time 2 192.168.xxx.x &>/dev/null
   if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
      prt-success "asusnode <active>"
   else
      prt-error "asusnode <inactive>"
   fi