Integrating MIBs with Nagios

[Nair]

As i understand check_snmp internally used net-snmpd for its snmp communication.

In that case if that any use of keeping new MIBs to /usr/share/snmp/mibs of Nagios server.

Also, is there any tool to read OID from MIB files.

Please clarify.

Thanks,

Manu.



On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 Patrick Morris wrote :
>On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Mr Manoj wrote:
>
> > Ok fine. how can i intergrate new MIBs with check_snmp.
> >
> > Say, when i receive new vendor MIB, how to comiple those to make
> > Nagios understand about the new MIBs.
>
>Nagios doesn't deal directly with MIBs at all -- really, all they all is
>a standard format for documenting the SNMP information from a given
>device.
>
>To use that information, well, that depends on what's in the MIBs, and
>what you care about. Look through the MIBs, and add check_snmp checks
>against the OIDS you care about. Unless they're traps, in which case
>this is a good starting point:
>
>http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=29
>
>In either case, you don't *need* MIBs at all.


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