SNMP.pm Solution/problem

[Kaufman, Michael]

OK. I still am confused.  I am trying to get SNMP.pm, I am not a linux
person overall, so I am looking for a rpm that I can install and get it to
work on redhat 7.3.  anyone have any ideas.  I'm just about out of hair to
pull.  I need it for the check_ifstatus and check_snmp.

thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org] 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:07 AM
To: chris.whipple at hq.com
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP.pm Solution

On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 chris.whipple at hq.com wrote:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Just thought I'd dispense some advice that I had to find out the hard way.
> 
> The net-snmp-5.0.3 package - that includes snmpd - comes with SNMP.pm
> v4.2.0.  This combination doesn't seem to work with the SNMP-based
> nagios-plugins(v1.3b1).
> 
> As suggested off-list by Subhendu Ghosh, I went to CPAN and grabbed
> Net::SNMP v4.0.2 and that seemed to do the trick.
> 
> This might be old news to some, but it threw me for a loop.  
> 
> Thanks for your help, Subhendu!
> 
> -chris.
> 

Just to clarify at little more:

net-snmp used to be known as ucd-snmp and the perl interface to that 
package is SNMP.  This is a perl interface to the C package.

Net::SNMP by David Town is a all perl module that does not support MIB 
parsing.

check_snmp uses snmpget binary that is a part of net-snmp package because 
it needs the ability to do MIB parsing. (Allows you to specify oids by 
name)

check_ifstatus and check_ifoperstatus use the Net::SNMP module as they 
don't need to do any MIB parsing and avoind the overhead of calling an 
external program. 


-sg


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