chech_snmp ..... how to determine OID

[Agnello George]

Hi
I have installed nagios on one of my server and now i am tring to understand
how to query my client machine using OIDs. But i just not understain one
thing is how does one determine a a OID. I am following a tutorial by
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/linuxoids.htm . But what ai don't seem to
understand is how do they determin a OID.

Can some on help me with  the concept of OIDs and how do i come up with my
own OID

i followed the above tutorial and tried to query my clinet server to get the
path where the disk is mounted  but was not successful here ..

[root at vps libexec]# ./check_snmp -H 121.XXX.XX.11 -C public -o
1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.2.1
SNMP problem - No data received from host
CMD: /usr/bin/snmpget -t 1 -r 5 -m '' -v 1 [authpriv] 121.XX.XX.XX:161
1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9.1.2.1

can some one help me here


Thanks a million !!
-- 
Regards
Agnello D'souza
www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com
www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/users/attachments/20080822/4f361478/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null