SNMP Question

[mark.potter at academy.com]

Reformatted due to top posting.

 
> nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 12/14/2007 01:15:33 
PM:
> 
> > >I am trying to view the status of port 1 on a Cisco 2970 switch. 
> > >However, Nagios is giving me an UNKNOWN error.  I tried running the 
> > >following from a command prompt: 
> > >./check_snmp -H <IP of the switch> -C <string> -o ifOperStatus.1 -r 1 

> > 
> > >I get the following response: 
> > >SNMP OK - up(1) | RFC1213-MIB::ifOperStatus.1=up(1) 
> > > 
> > > If I am getting this response at the command prompt, why isn't the 
> > > monitor coming up green in Nagios? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, 
> > > Mike 
> > > 
> >Are you running the command as the nagios user when you run it from 
> >the command line?

> I am running it as root.
> 

You will not be able to troubleshoot when running plugins as root. Root 
has different permissions than the nagios user. Try running it as the 
nagios user. Also, you will have to put the MIB somewhere nagios can use 
it otherwise use the numeric for SNMP.
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