snmpwalk as external command or customize "Status information"

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 11:00:34AM +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> You need to write a small script to act as your plugin. That script will
> ~ execute the snmpget or snmpwalk command and interpretate the output for
> you.
> 
> It should then set the return code to signal the proper status to nagios
> and you can select which part of the output will be passed through to
> nagios as text.
> 
> If I had a serious need for this I would write a perl script.

And use Net::SNMP, instead of shelling out to a command.

Cheers,
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