Check_SNMP question

[Israel Brewster]

Yep, so it was. Thanks. I have it working nicely now, other than  
having to have separate scripts for each OID I want to check.

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Aaron Segura wrote:

> I would just call 'snmpget' directly instead of going through
> check_snmp.  You can modify the output so you just get the data you
> want...
>
> snmpget -Oquv -c <community> <host> <OID>
>
> Will return JUST the value at the specified OID.  Should be pretty  
> easy
> to handle from there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Israel Brewster [mailto:israel at frontierflying.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:54 PM
> To: Aaron Segura
> Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_SNMP question
>
> The problem with that being that I would have to customize said
> script for each OID I want to query. It may end up being what I end
> up doing though. How would I parse the output of check_snmp? it looks
> like it returns a string similar to "SNMP OK - 2 | SNMPv2-
> SMI::mib-2.33.1.2.1.0=2;;;; ", - I suppose I could just look for the
> "=", take the next character, and go from there, though. I have some
> experience with basic scripting, essentially none with scripts for
> nagios, however. Thanks :)
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Israel Brewster
> Computer Support Technician
> Frontier Flying Service INC.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Aaron Segura wrote:
>
>> Probably the best/easiest thing would be to write a small wrapper
>> script.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
>> Israel
>> Brewster
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 12:25 PM
>> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Check_SNMP question
>>
>> In the help for the check_snmp plugin, there are -w and -c switches
>> which you can give ranges to "not return warning" and "not return
>> critical". If I am reading the documentation correctly, you can also
>> give a range as max:min to invert the meaning to something like
>> "return warning only for this range". Is there any way to do non-
>> contiguous ranges? My situation is as follows: the OID that I am
>> querying returns the following list of possible integer values:
>>      other(1),
>>      none(2),
>>      normal(3),
>>      bypass(4),
>>      battery(5),
>>      booster(6),
>>      reducer(7)
>>
>> Now what I want is an OK result if the return value is 3, critical if
>> 5 or 2, and warning if anything else. Is this possible? On a related
>> note, is there a way to append a specific status string depending on
>> the return value? For example, if I get a 5 I want to set the info
>> text in nagios to be something like "UPS on battery power". Thanks.
>>
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Israel Brewster
>> Computer Support Technician
>> Frontier Flying Service INC.
>> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
>> Fairbanks, AK 99709
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>
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