Nagios 3.0rc2 - Method to enumerate multiple interfaces/OIDs?

[Joerg Linge]

William Howard schrieb:
> We have about 150 client sites that we would like to be able to monitor 
> via SNMP.  The client sites have multiple WAN interfaces on a router 
> (2-6) for bandwidth and redundancy.  The SNMP interface of the device 
> allows checking of statistics on each interface (about 12-18 items per 
> interface).
> 
>    * What we would like to do is setup each site as its own host and
>      then monitor:
>    * Ping for each interface (already working in nagios)
>    * Each interfaces set of snmp information (working but cumbersome)
>    * Mrtg -- (that will come next)
> 
> 
> Currently, I have defined each snmp service separately as a template 
> (register 0) and then as I define each host, I have to copy/paste each 
> group of snmp checks  for as many interfaces as there are to be monitored.
> 
> My question is -- is there a way to enumerate the interfaces either 
> through SNMP (there is an OID that tells how many interfaces are defined 
> on the router) or through a script?  (like snmpwalk?) Ultimately, it 
> would be easier if nagios could determine the number of defined 
> interfaces and enumerate the OIDs that we have defined and want to 
> monitor.  If not -- if there was a way to define interfaces in groups 
> that allowed the interfaces to be quickly defined for each host.
> 
> I have tried the nagios documentation on service groups/host groups/etc 
> but it is still cumbersome.  It also doesn't let me see each host and 
> its associated interfaces as a single group unless I define each/every 
> one for that host.

Hi William,
have a look on check_multi as your already using nagios 3.x

http://my-plugin.de/wiki/projects/check_multi/start

The graphing can be done by PNP

http://www.pnp4nagios.org/pnp/


Cheers
Joerg

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