check_snmp Strangeness

[Subhendu Ghosh]

What version of snmp and check_snmp.

net-snmp v5.x requires that the community string be precedded by the 
option argument "-c"  old versions of ucd-snmp (4.x) did not require it 
and check_snmp did not support it.

the current check_snmp in CVS does.

-sg

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Jeff Rendl wrote:

> My check_snmp appears to be sending the wrong command line to "snmpget".  I
> test the command from the libexec dir with the following:
>  
> [root at blah libexec]# ./check_snmp -H 192.168.1.1 -o sysUpTime.0 -C public
>  
> and it replies with:
> SNMP problem - No data received from host
> CMD: /usr/bin/snmpget -m ALL -v 1 192.168.1.1 public -c sysUpTime.0
>  
> Which is true because that command doesn't work with snmpget, the format
> that works is:
>  
> snmpget -m ALL -v 1 192.168.1.1 -c public sysUpTime.0
>  
> If I modify the check_snmp request to:
>  
> [root at blah libexec]# ./check_snmp -H 192.168.1.1 -o sysUpTime.0 -C "-c
> public"
>  
> It works.
>  
> Is there a way to change what check_snmp sends to snmpget?
>  
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 

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