check snmp

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 18/11/08 08:06 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote:
> 
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>> On 18/11/08 07:59 AM, Simon Kainz wrote:
>>> Melanie Pfefer wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> perhaps I was not clear in my question.
>>>>
>>>> What is the OID that should be used to see if snmp service is up or down?
>>>>
>>>> thank you
> 
> At the rick of stating the obvious, if the SNMP service is down, the OID
> you're checking doesn't matter. Just pick anything your server supports,
> and if the service is down, it won't work. Pretty simple stuff.

True, although you better:

1. Get an OID that will show up on all server (Windows, Linux, BSD, etc)
2. Don't get one that may vanish
3. Ideally, get one that prints something nice ("SNMP OK - 32173980"
isn't very clear about what it's chercking)

Hence, SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 :)

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Thomas
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