Applying a multiplier to check_snmp results

Matthew J. Salerno vagabond_king at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 12 23:17:13 CEST 2010


I ran into the same thing, I ended up writing my own plugins.  Just look for a 
non binary plugin (perl/python etc) and then hack away.



----- Original Message ----
From: Jim Avery <jim at jimavery.me.uk>
To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thu, August 12, 2010 5:05:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Applying a multiplier to check_snmp results

On 12 August 2010 21:27, Hall, JC <jhall at iodatacenters.com> wrote:
> I have a situation where I would like to apply a multiplier to the results
> of a check_snmp output.
>
> The situation is this:
>
> The value received from my check_snmp = 20717.  The integer multiplier for
> this particular OID is 0.01.
>
> The output I want reported to Nagios is 20717 x 0.01 = 207.17.
>
> Looking through the options of the check_snmp plugin, I can’t determine how
> I could accomplish this.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated.


+1 to that!

I was doing some monitoring on a UPS yesterday and found the current
is given as an integer which is 10x the Amps, so it would be great to
be able to divide by 10 (or multiply by whatever) in check_snmp.

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