SNMP Monitoring

[Subhendu Ghosh]

I think Ethan had some user defineable variables up his sleve for the the 
post 1.0 release. :)

-sg

On 15 Aug 2002, Al Tobey wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 09:22, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > The CGIs currently have access to all the config files except resource.cfg 
> > where all the USERx macros are stored.
> > 
> > One reason not to have snmp_community in the host definition is that it 
> > will increase the memory footprint because you will have to allocate a 
> > struct member for all hosts. Otherwise we could add NSClient passwords and 
> > other access method information as well.
> Hmm.  I suppose you're correct, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to
> make.  It's much cheaper for me to buy more ram than to spend a lot of
> time managing SNMP communities in my Nagios config.
> 
> It might be nice to have host/hostgroup user variables that could be
> used for SNMP or any other similar information.
> define host {
> 	...
> 	user_var1	public
> }
> 
> > Keeping the community names in resource.cfg can be painless if one can
> > make up a mapping between classes of devices with common communities and
> > the USERx macro numbers.  e.g I use USER10 for all switches/hubs, USER11 
> > for all hosts/server, USER9 for all routers.
> I used to do that.   Now (as of yesterday) I have a patch for nagios to
> do what I asked about.  It's attached and has been tested against b4 and
> b5.  It adds "snmp_community" to the host definitions and the
> "$SNMPCOMMUNITY$" macro for use in the command or service definitions.
> define host {
> 	...
> 	snmp_community public
> }
> define command {
> 	...
> 	command_line snmp_monitor_process.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C
> $SNMPCOMMUNITY$ -e process_name
> }
> 
> -Al Tobey
> Unix Administrator
> 
> 
> 
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