Nagios 3.0rc2 - Method to enumerate multiple interfaces/OIDs?
Joerg Linge
pitchfork at ederdrom.de
Sat Feb 23 17:49:20 CET 2008
William Howard schrieb:
> We have about 150 client sites that we would like to be able to monitor
> via SNMP. The client sites have multiple WAN interfaces on a router
> (2-6) for bandwidth and redundancy. The SNMP interface of the device
> allows checking of statistics on each interface (about 12-18 items per
> interface).
>
> * What we would like to do is setup each site as its own host and
> then monitor:
> * Ping for each interface (already working in nagios)
> * Each interfaces set of snmp information (working but cumbersome)
> * Mrtg -- (that will come next)
>
>
> Currently, I have defined each snmp service separately as a template
> (register 0) and then as I define each host, I have to copy/paste each
> group of snmp checks for as many interfaces as there are to be monitored.
>
> My question is -- is there a way to enumerate the interfaces either
> through SNMP (there is an OID that tells how many interfaces are defined
> on the router) or through a script? (like snmpwalk?) Ultimately, it
> would be easier if nagios could determine the number of defined
> interfaces and enumerate the OIDs that we have defined and want to
> monitor. If not -- if there was a way to define interfaces in groups
> that allowed the interfaces to be quickly defined for each host.
>
> I have tried the nagios documentation on service groups/host groups/etc
> but it is still cumbersome. It also doesn't let me see each host and
> its associated interfaces as a single group unless I define each/every
> one for that host.
Hi William,
have a look on check_multi as your already using nagios 3.x
http://my-plugin.de/wiki/projects/check_multi/start
The graphing can be done by PNP
http://www.pnp4nagios.org/pnp/
Cheers
Joerg
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