SNMP Monitoring conundrum

[Max]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Israel
Brewster<israel at frontierflying.com> wrote:
> Anyone else run into a similar situation? What does everyone else think the
> best approach here is? Thanks.

We do a lot of SNMP monitoring for a number of various agents -
Net-SNMP, Cisco, Sysedge.  I have found it to be much easier to
maintain and release the scripts by doing one agent type per script.
This lets you create a 'bundle' of scripts for an agent type.

E.g.

net-snmp/check_net_snmp_cpu.pl
net-snmp/check_net_snmp_disk.pl
net-snmp/check_net_snmp_la.pl
net-snmp/check_net_snmp_mem.pl
net-snmp/check_net_snmp_procs.pl
net-snmp/check_net_snmp_swap.pl

sysedge/check_sysedge_cpu.pl
sysedge/check_sysedge_la.pl
sysedge/check_sysedge_mem.pl
sysedge/check_sysedge_swap.pl
sysedge/check_sysedge_unix_storage.pl

This then helps us also keep our configurations consistent as we do
the service definitions and comand definitions in files by type ..

ommands/net-snmp.cfg
commands/sysedge.cfg

services/net-snmp.cfg
services/sysedge.cfg

As you know, code bases get pretty big pretty quickly with SNMP, so
having one agent type per script also decreases the chances of bugs
and makes it easier to fix bugs when they arise.

So my personal recommendation is to keep the scripts to 1 agent type per script.

- max

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