Nagios & SNMP

[Gius, Mark]

I'm not aware of any good SNMP tutorials.  Your best bet is probably the Wikipedia entry for SNMP (which focuses more on the protocol and less on using snmp to actually monitor stuff) or the net-snmp project's FAQ and documentation (http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/FAQ.html).

Your first step should be to determine if the tools from net-snmp are able to successfully scrape data from the target device.  Once you're able to do that using the 'snmpwalk' or 'snmpget' set of commands, you'll be in good shape to have Nagios pull information from target devices.  Trying to debug SNMP through Nagios is far harder than doing it via the commandline.

-Gius

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luc MAIGNAN [mailto:luc.maignan at winxpert.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 8:24 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios & SNMP
> 
>   Well, in fact no. I use nagios with several plugins but not yet snmp.
> 
> I would like use SNMP plugin to monitor printers, network switchs, IP
> thermometer...
> 
> I don't succeed to use the check_snmp so I'm looking for a howto.
> 
> 
> Le 11/08/10 16:51, Parish, Brent a écrit :
> > Hi
> >
> > When you say "work together", does that mean you already have SNMP
> > running and gathering data?
> >
> > If you mean just using Nagios to collect data via SNMP, there is a
> > built-in check (part of the plugins package), called check_snmp I
> think.
> > I used Perl to write all my own SNMP checks and that works very well.
> >
> > As long as the output of the agent/plugin conforms to the Nagios
> > requirements:
> >      http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/pluginapi.html
> > You should be ok.
> >
> > Brent
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Luc MAIGNAN [mailto:luc.maignan at winxpert.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 9:52 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios&  SNMP
> >
> >    Hi,
> >
> > I don't succeed to make Nagios with SNMP work together. So I'm
> looking
> > for an UP-TO-DATE howto. The documentation on the nagios official
> > website seems to be down.
> >
> > Can anybody tell me where I can find a such howto ?
> >
> > BR
> >
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