Snmp - How do you use yours?

[Hari Sekhon]

OID=object identifier
see http://www.net-snmp.com/

best not to hijack other people's threads, you should start your own if 
you have a different question.

-h

Hari Sekhon



shawn.beasley at dlh.de wrote:
> Hey Hari (List), 
>
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>> Von: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
>> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Im 
>> Auftrag von Hari Sekhon
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 28. November 2006 10:46
>> An: Nagios Users mailinglist
>> Betreff: [Nagios-users] Snmp - How do you use yours?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>    I've decided to add snmp monitoring to my nagios setup. 
>> I'd like to know what you guys and gals are monitoring using 
>> snmp out there.
>>
>> It seemed like a lot of work to get in to, but I think this 
>> was just the effort of trying to piece together the 
>> "documentation" for net-snmp to figure out how to use it.
>>     
>
> I am at the begining of working with SNMP and have very little idea how I can help my self.
>
>   
>> So, now I have an idea and have snmpwalked my agent, I'm left 
>> with a big long list of OIDs that I'm not sure are very 
>>     
>
> What is an OID?
>
>   
>> useful. Ok, all the tutorials show uptime, which is the agent 
>> uptime rather than the system uptime but in a few months when 
>> the servers are rebooted hopefully this will be the same. So 
>> what else can I do with it?
>>
>> Can I extend it to export an OID for some test that runs 
>> locally on the system?
>>
>> I need help and ideas please?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -h
>>
>> --
>> Hari Sekhon
>>
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> Where can I find the mentioned tutorials for SNMP?
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