MIB additions

[Marc Powell]

On Jul 29, 2009, at 2:05 PM, SYS ADMIN wrote:

> I keep running across MIB lists that imply they can be loaded into  
> SNMP
> monitoring softwares directly.

Yes.

> Is there provision to do this in Nagios?

No. Nagios doesn't know or care about MIB's. check_snmp just passes  
whatever string you give it to /usr/bin/snmpget, which does know about  
MIBs and how to translate the string you give it. snmpget is part of  
the NET-SNMP package.

> I have some hardware devices that I would like to monitor, and can get
> these lists, but don't know how to get them into a form where
> Nagios/SNMP can determine the OIDs I need.

You need to add them to NET-SNMP --

http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/TUT:Using_and_loading_MIBS

--
Marc



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