check snmp problem and cant find the reason

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Kelly Setzer wrote:

> > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:33:04 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org>
> > 
> > Can you try running the plugin with a "-v" option (verbose mode - not 
> > documented) - it prints the command and the output of the command.
> 
> /opt/net-snmp/bin/snmpget -O Q -m ALL -v 1 -c community athena:161
> laLoad.2
> UCD-SNMP-MIB::laLoad.2 = 0.01
> 
> SNMP OK - 0.01
> 
> 
> This is an intermittent problem.  I did the following to prove to me
> that snmpget and snmpd on the target box is reliable:
> 
> while [ 1 ]; do 
>   /check_snmp ../etc/checkcommands.cfg -H athena -t 15 -o laLoad.2  -v
> done
> 
> 
> I let it run for several minutes and observed no failures.
> 
> Kelly
> 

It may be a load/timeout issue on the nagios server.  Try using the -m "" 
option (not loading the MIB files) and using the actual oid.



-- 
-sg




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