I don't understand the check_by_ssh plugin

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On Fri, December 5, 2008 13:26, Patrick Morris wrote:

> In addition to the remote-plugin-execution approachi via something like
> NSCA or NRPE, you can probably use SNMP to pull what you're looking for
> using the check_snmp plugin without having to install additional software
> on your monitored hosts.  It involves a bit more research up front to find
> the OIDs you want to watch, but it's pretty flexible and often doesn't
> require and special configuration on the monitored machines.

I have a bad history of failure to accomplish much of anything in at least
three runs at using SNMP to get data from various devices, so I tend to
shy away from the concept.  It seems to be a horrendous learning curve,
and none of the sites I've found so far make any *sense*.

Having said that -- can you recommend a site that talks about SNMP and
gives examples at the level of getting information out of a Linux box, and
perhaps some sort of household router/WAP?  It'd be good for me to learn,
if I had some reason to hope I'd have a better outcome than the last few
times.

It does seem very likely that the simple things I need from Linux may
already be in the MIB, meaning I just need to access stuff there rather
than add anything new.

-- 
David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/
Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/
Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/
Dragaera: http://dragaera.info


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The future of the web can't happen without you.  Join us at MIX09 to help
pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at
http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null