snmp community option in host definition?

[James Whittington]

Thanks for all who gave immediate feedback on having a snmp community
option in nagios.

It's good to know N3 will have the custom macro support, I am already
doing some testing to see of the configuration interface my client is
using will be able to play nicely with Nagios 3.x so the custom macro
support is a definite plus.  


Deriving community names by fetching the hostgroup name also sounds like
a creative solution, I keep configuration data in the database and the
filesystem so I could grab the hostgroup from either, I just haven't had
a reason to fetch that information before.

Thanks again for the helpful feedback.

James Whittington

-----Original Message-----
From: william(at)elan.net [mailto:william at elan.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:11 PM
To: James Whittington
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] snmp community option in host definition?


1. N3 will/does support custom macros
2. I've seen (or heard) somewhere patch to add snmp community name to
host
3. Many are doing it using hostgroup names and then have a map file
    with community names loaded from it (and then also not seen when
    you do ps on the box!!!)

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, James Whittington wrote:

> 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.
>
> I realize nagios a more a monitoring framework and not tied solely to
> snmp based checks but it seems like it's a worthy item to have as part
> of the host definition.
>
> Maybe it there and I'm just not paying attention, if so I am sure
> someone will correct me :<)..
>
> Thanks,
>
> James Whittington


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