[Nagiosplug-help] check_snmp: SNMPv3 + authPriv: Best place to specify the password?

[moshe sharon]

Hi
the best way to keep the passwords secure is to set the right permissions
for resource.cfg files (example: chmod 700 and chown nagios)
in this file set $USERn$ as the password (you have from USER1 to USER32)
and then use the $USERn$ in your check commands

hope it helped
Moshe Sharon



On 1/8/06, Thomas Karcher <thkarcher at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> as I mentioned in my message before, I'm monitoring over the Internet
> and therefore I use SNMPv3 with authPriv.
>
> Everything works fine, nagios with check_snmp works well. But one thing
> is not very nice: With SNMPv3 with authPriv, there are passwords.
>
> What's the best place to specify the password in the nagios
> configuration?
>
> Because: If I don't want to have a common user and transport password
> for all monitored hosts, I have to specify for each host and for each
> service a check command that includes the password. The other
> possibility is to pass the password as a parameter from services.cfg -
> but both possibilities result in specifying a host depending password
> very often at different places ...
>
> (Am I asking this on the right list?)
>
>
> Thanks for your hints,
> best regards,
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
>
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