check_uptime work around... with snmp

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Serveur-Faucon Surveillance wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Someone was looking up a way to be notified when his servers where rebooting. The suggestion at that time was to use the check_uptime check that is in the contrib directory (= means, does not work right now and need some modification).
> 
> A work around for this, using snmp, would be to use the check_snmp check (latest daily release of plugins, with the range option.
> 
> So the command would look like... (in checkcommands.cfg)
> BEGIN --------------------
> #snmp
> define command{
>    command_name snmp_sysuptime
>    command_line $USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c 300:1 -C $ARG1$ -o .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0
> }
> ----------------- END
> 
> -o .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = This is the OID uptime in seconds (I think) for everything that does SNMP
> -c 300:1 = Assuming that theses are seconds, this option would let me know if it is between 300 seconds and 1 second.
> 
> You would have to do some tests to actually see if it is seconds.
> 
> Happy hunting. :)
> 
> Alex
> 
The unit is hundredths of a second ...


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