SNMP.pm Solution/problem

[Rusch, Daniel]

get it from cpan (cpan.org) the easiest way is to use the interactive tool.


If you are running RH 7.3 (depending on what you installed, the cpan shell
should have been installed with the OS)

Try:

perl -MCPAN -e shell

you should get:

cpan>


then type:

cpan> install Net::SNMP.pm

sit back and let it install it for you


HTH

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Kaufman, Michael [mailto:Kaufmanm at gtc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 6:45 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] SNMP.pm Solution/problem


OK. I still am confused.  I am trying to get SNMP.pm, I am not a linux
person overall, so I am looking for a rpm that I can install and get it to
work on redhat 7.3.  anyone have any ideas.  I'm just about out of hair to
pull.  I need it for the check_ifstatus and check_snmp.

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org] 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:07 AM
To: chris.whipple at hq.com
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP.pm Solution

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 chris.whipple at hq.com wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just thought I'd dispense some advice that I had to find out the hard way.
> 
> The net-snmp-5.0.3 package - that includes snmpd - comes with SNMP.pm
> v4.2.0.  This combination doesn't seem to work with the SNMP-based
> nagios-plugins(v1.3b1).
> 
> As suggested off-list by Subhendu Ghosh, I went to CPAN and grabbed
> Net::SNMP v4.0.2 and that seemed to do the trick.
> 
> This might be old news to some, but it threw me for a loop.  
> 
> Thanks for your help, Subhendu!
> 
> -chris.
> 

Just to clarify at little more:

net-snmp used to be known as ucd-snmp and the perl interface to that 
package is SNMP.  This is a perl interface to the C package.

Net::SNMP by David Town is a all perl module that does not support MIB 
parsing.

check_snmp uses snmpget binary that is a part of net-snmp package because 
it needs the ability to do MIB parsing. (Allows you to specify oids by 
name)

check_ifstatus and check_ifoperstatus use the Net::SNMP module as they 
don't need to do any MIB parsing and avoind the overhead of calling an 
external program. 


-sg


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