check_snmp - warning numbers

[Alejandro Sánchez Meroño]

Hola Matías... :-) and hola everyone...

There exists a magical website where to identify every OID you can check with SNMP, the link is: 

http://support.ipmonitor.com/mibs_byoidtree.aspx

For your particular issue, if you type "RFC1213-MIB" at the "Search for:" form, click the result given ("RFC1213-MIB"), and then "View: Oid-tree", you'll be able to locate "ifInErrors(14)" at the tree shown, and clicking it you'll find its Description, which reads literally:

"The number of inbound packets that contained errors preventing them from being deliverable to a higher-layer protocol."

That's the answer to your question!!

Now some other questions appear...

Wouldn't it be nicer to know what exactly are you monitoring before you monitor it, so you could properly interpret the results?

Is that parameter (number of inbound packets that contained errors and blah blah blah...) significant enough to determine if a port is working properly or not? 

Hope this helps...

Best regards, 

         Alejandro

==
Alejandro Sanchez Merono
Area de Informatica y Comunicaciones
Instituto de Tecnologia Electrica - http://www.ite.es
Valencia - Spain


 

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Matias Blanco [mailto:matias at valastro.com.ar] 
Enviado el: miércoles, 06 de mayo de 2009 17:49
Para: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Asunto: [Nagios-users] check_snmp - warning numbers

Hi, I am using the check_snmp nagios`s plugin. And when we check the ports status of a 3com Baseline 2250 Plus, we recibe many ports results:

SNMP OK - 0
SNMP WARNING - *1*
SNMP WARNING - *84*
SNMP WARNING - *2*
SNMP WARNING - *2*
SNMP WARNING - *4*

The question is, what´s the meaning of the warning numbers?


Other information:
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# 'check_snmp' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_snmp
        command_line    $USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
        }

Example of service
-------------------

define service {
	use			service-15x3x5-switchs
	host_name		3COM2250P
	service_description	Port 03 [In Errors]
	check_command		check_snmp!-C public -o ifInErrors.3 -w
0 -m RFC1213-MIB
	notifications_enabled	0
	}



THANKS...
Matías Blanco.


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