Monitoring Solaris via SNMP?

[Paul Weaver]

>> From: Serafin, Chris
>> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:01 PM
>> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Solaris via SNMP?
>>  
>> I'm trying to monitor CPU, memory and disk space via SNMP on a bunch
of Solaris machines and running into errors (nothing returned from
check_snmp_cpu.pl). 
>> Is anyone monitoring Solaris this way, and if so how/what plugin?
> From: Doug Veldhuisen
> 
> Are you using the Solaris snmp stack or the net-snmp version on your
Sun box?
> There is a difference, big difference in the data obtained.  I think
what your looking for comes from the Net-SNMP stack.
> Not totally sure, I have a couple of Sun boxes I plan on putting up
under Nagios myself.

I monitor about a dozen solaris boxes using a variety of custom plugins
(as well as things like check_tcp, check_ssh, ping etc), but snmp wise I
use:
1) a "check_hd" one, [www.peters-webcorner.de/nagios], then I "modified
to add support for multiple oses, reconfigured output, changed help to
be clearer, and added support for snmpv3"
2) a "check_process_by_snmp", which from the style I think I wrote from
scratch before I started storing my libexec directory in subversion,
that checks a process is running (optionally with a parameter)
3) a "check_mem_by_snmp", another internal one which checks the free
memory on a box

On the machine I use "net-snmp 5.0.9" in /usr/sfw/sbin/snmpd. I think
(I'm not a solaris admin), it attected to "snmpdx -- Sun Solstice
Enterprise Master Agent" supplied by the SUNWmibii. 

You can run snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic hostname .1 to see what fun
information is available

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Paul Weaver    
Systems Development Engineer
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