Nagios with snmp

[James Pratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anirudh Srinivasan [mailto:srianirudh at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:18 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios with snmp
> 
> Hey Folks,
> 
> I want to test a Switch to be monitored using snmp plugin in nagios.
Right now i am
> just monitoring the ping but i need to find out , what other parameter
can be
> monitored on a switch using snmp. Also i have a windows server with
NC_net installed
> , and i need to test using check_nt as well as check_snmp plugin the
parameters . I
> am looking forward to some help with this. Can i get some link or some
tutorials to
> start up with this please .
> 
> I have snmpd running on my linux , i need to know what changes i need
to make for
> my snmpd.conf file
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Anirudh Srinivasan
> 

There are generally two ways to utilize SNMP with nagios - either you
set up your nagios server to catch SNMP "traps" (the SNMP trapsink
server), 

http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=29
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=28

or you poll the host/snmpd service for whatever info you like from the
client/nagios side using SNMP - Therefore, unless you are polling your
own server via nagios, tweaking/changing your local snmpd.conf will not
do much good...

Either way, check out http://manubulon.nagios.org - these will fill the
gaps in "check_snmp", for either *nix or windows systems.

Another good starting point is :
http://conshell.net/wiki/index.php/Using_Nagios_with_SNMP

Regards,
jamie



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