check_snmp disk space monitoring

[Jim Avery]

On 17 February 2010 19:45, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
>
> I'm playing with using check_snmp to look at disk space, with commands
> (working from the command line so far) like:
>
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -C public -P 2c -H localhost -o
> dskErrorMsg.2 -r '^\s*$'
>
> ([[:space:]] doesn't work any better than \s either)
>
> I'm trying to monitor the error message rather than the simple flag so
> that the data returned will include the error when one is found.  I'm
> trying to use the regex capability to to match an empty error message; so
> that anything non-empty will be reported as an error.
>
> And I'm not getting anywhere.  I'm mostly pretty good with regexps, but
> despite claiming in --help to support "extended regular expressions", it
> doesn't seem to.  In particular the "^" for beginning of text and "$" for
> end of text don't seem to be working.
>
> Clues!  Clues for the poor!
>
> Is this a basically stupid approach, by the way?
>
> Oh, and how does -r work with multiply OIDs in -o?  What's the syntax for
> providing multiple -r values, and what happens if you only provide one?


I think you're maybe a bit ambitious using check_snmp for disk space.
I recommend you use check_snmp_storage.pl which you will find at
http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_storage.html


hth,

Jim

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