Getting Nagios and AIX SNMP working together happily

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 10/03/07 11:08 AM, Michael Weiner wrote:
> On 3/9/07 8:02 PM, "Raphaël 'SurcouF' Bordet" <surcouf at debianfr.net> wrote:
> 
>> Le vendredi 09 mars 2007 à 15:20 -0600, Russell Adams a écrit :
>>>> There are no shortage of SNMP-based hard drive checks listed on
>>>> nagiosexchange.org
>>> AIX used to not support RFC2790 (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB) which is required
>>> to use most generic snmp plugins to query data. AIX 5.2 and earlier
>>> had this problem.
>>>
>>> I just snmpwalked one of my AIX 5.3 systems and it returned HOSTMIB data.
>> Hi, 
>>
>> I've already and successfully use some AIX 5.2 systems and retreives OID
>> from H-R-M (hrSystem, hrStorage, hrDevice and hrSWInstalled tables).
>> Did you have hostmibd[1] running ? This DPI2 sub-agent implement
>> HOST-RESSOURCES-MIB (RFC 1155 and 1592).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm
>> .aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds2/hostmibd.htm
> 
> Not trying to highjack this interesting thread, but has anyone managed to do
> the same against SGI IRIX? What annoys me most is that when i query system i
> get the uptime of the actual snmpd instance not the host - which may or may
> not necessarily be the same length of time. I have googled and googled and
> have had no real success.
> 
> Anyone doing this that might be able to help?

Not trying to highjack this interesting thread either, but has anyone
though of using NRPE? You can then use any Nagios-plugins checks and
make your own in any programming language you like.

Thomas


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