Getting Nagios and AIX SNMP working together happily

[Michael Weiner]

On 3/10/07 11:30 AM, "Thomas Guyot-Sionnest" <dermoth at aei.ca> wrote:

> 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.i
>>> bm
>>> .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.

Good point, although i was trying to do this without having to put anything
else on the remote server, and since snmp runs on it natively, that was the
most straightforward choice - at least for me

I will check into it, thanks!
Michael



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