<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16544" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left>I am running it as root.</DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> From: nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of mark.potter@academy.com Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 1:27 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Question </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <TT>nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 12/14/2007 01:15:33 PM: > I am trying to view the status of port 1 on a Cisco 2970 switch. > However, Nagios is giving me an UNKNOWN error. I tried running the > following from a command prompt:</TT> <TT>> ./check_snmp -H <IP of the switch> -C <string> -o ifOperStatus.1 -r 1</TT> <TT>> </TT> <TT>> I get the following response:</TT> <TT>> SNMP OK - up(1) | RFC1213-MIB::ifOperStatus.1=up(1)</TT> <TT>> </TT> <TT>> If I am getting this response at the command prompt, why isn't the > monitor coming up green in Nagios?</TT> <TT>> </TT> <TT>> Thanks,</TT> <TT>> Mike</TT> <TT>> </TT> <TT>Are you running the command as the nagios user when you run it from the command line?</TT></BODY></HTML>