snmp community option in host definition?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James Whittington
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:06 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?
> 
> I am faced with the potential of having to monitor different remote
> networks with primariliy  custom perl based snmp checks.
> 
> The tricky part of this is that different networks may have different
SNMP
> community names.
> 
> 
> 
> While I could create different service definitions for each different
> community name or build logic in the script to try multiple names I
was
> kinda surprised I didn't see a community name directive in the host
> definition specification.

Nagios-3 is expected to allow you to create arbitrary directives in
host/service definitions for just this type of situation. You're pretty
much limited right now to the options you described.

http://www.nagios.org/development/upcoming.php

--
Marc

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