SNMP howto?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Jan Johansson wrote:

> <clueless-newbie-disclaimer>Being on my new job, I would like to pitch
> for using nagios to monitor some internal resources. The crux is that we
> are (for another 3 weeks) on a dialup only, which only allows mails to
> be transferred. Normally I would have gone through FAQ's and online docs
> before asking something as mundane as this</clueless-newbie-disclaimer>
> 
>  
> 
> What I would like some info on the plausibility and "howto" in
> monitoring a arbitrary SNMP resource, I have the MIB for them, but how
> tricky / trivial is it to get the data from the device?
> 
>  
> 
> And also, if the definition says
> 
>  
> 
> hrprinterdetectederrorstate OBJECT-TYPE
> 
>     SYNTAX  OCTET STRING
> 
>     ACCESS  read-only
> 
>     STATUS  mandatory
> 
>     DESCRIPTION
> 
>                 "This object represents any error conditions
> 
>                detected by the printer.  The error conditions are
> 
>                encoded as bits in an octet string, with the
> 
>                following definitions:
> 
>                     Condition         Bit #    hrDeviceStatus
> 
>                     lowPaper          0        warning(3)
> 
>                     noPaper           1        down(5)
> 
>                     lowToner          2        warning(3)
> 
>                     noToner           3        down(5)
> 
>                     doorOpen          4        down(5)
> 
>                     jammed            5        down(5)
> 
>                     offline           6        down(5)
> 
>                     serviceRequested  7        warning(3)
> 
>  
> 
> how do I pull a certain definition from it? I would like to define one
> check for toner_low and one for jammed and so on, so forth?
> 
>  
> 
> -----
> Jan Johansson
> IT-Coordinator
> NEW WAVE LOGISTICS Scandinavia AB
> Exportgatan 28, Box 4114
> S-422 04 HISINGS BACKA, Sweden
> Phone: +46(0) 31 742 48 00
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> 
>  

In this particular case - have you tried check_hpjd plugin that queries 
the HP JetDirect card via snmp?

-- 

-sg



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