Different results from 'check_snmp' running on different servers

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 03/05/07 09:14 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> 
> You're checking is a string so normally it always return OK. If it
> returns a non-ok status it's most likely because snmpget returned
> something on STDERR. use the -v switch to see which command is being
> run, and then you can run it yourself to see what's going on (usually
> it's MIB parsing errors like illegal characters - there's multiple way
> to fix these issues)
> 
> If you want to alert based on the status returned you should rather use
> a OID that returns a numeric value like these ones:
> 
> ciscoEnvMonTemperatureStatusValue
> ciscoEnvMonTemperatureState

[Got distracted and pressd send too early]

And then you can use thresholds values (-w, -c) to alert based on the
result.

See:
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT
for the threshold format

Thomas

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